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Twitter Limits Users to Following 2,000 People

by Terrence O'Brien on August 16, 2008 at 03:25 PM

Twitter Limits You to Following 2,000 People
Twitter's popularity has soared recently, and, of course, this has caused spammers to flock to the service like right wing radio hosts to a fiery black preacher. Twitter has plenty of problems of its own with out having to worry about spammy posters ruining the party for everyone else.

One of the most common techniques used by spammers to rack up a significant number of followers -- folks who track a particular person's tweats -- is to follow as many people as possible. The idea is that the folks a spammer follows will return the favor and follow the spammer eventually, too. Twitter is combating this practice by limiting the number of people any one user can follow, and therefore limiting the amount of people the spammer can connect to.

The limits are different for each account and based upon the number of followers and other undisclosed criteria, but generally the limit seems to be in the 2,000 range. Some may complain about the restriction, but it seems perfectly reasonable to us -- there is no way you could possibly keep up with following 2,000 people and get anything useful out of it. [Source: brentcsutoras]

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