Overheard
I just saw this pass by on Twitter, and I've seen a bunch of variations on it over the last few days:
I will follow all new followers today. This new follower limit twitter has is slowing me down.
The limit is 1000. How can a limit of 1000 people a day as new people to follow slow you down? I can see automated systems that might want to follow more signals than that, but actual people?
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Comments
Twitter Follow Madness
[Rogers Cadenhead] April 22, 2009 13:41:17.086
The only people following more than 41 users an hour (1,000 a day) are bots. No one using the service interactively could add that many legitimately.
Why Bother?
[W^L+] April 22, 2009 20:00:01.712
There is a limit to how many updates you can track at a time. It makes no sense to follow huge numbers of people. It might be better to pick a few people who actively follow and reply to others who might be interesting.