Here is a quick Breakdown of the Follow Limits
- 1,000 updates per day
- 1,000 direct messages per day
- 100 API requests per hour
- Follow limit Starts At 2000
- 1,000 total updates per day, on any and all devices (web, mobile web, phone, API, etc. )
- 1,000 total direct messages per day, on any and all devices
- 100 API requests per hour
If you follow 2100 people and you have 2000 followers then what you have to do is start deleting people you follow in order to follow any more new people. This way you will get new followers and your ratio will go up.
This is how it works
Approximate estimate:
Followers You can Follow
2000------2100
2500------2750
3000------3300 - 3600?
4000------4400 - 4900?
so when you finally hit around 4000 plus people, you can add the 1000 per day limit with no problems.
So,, My suggestion is to use a service such as TwitterKarma http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ to delete unwanted people you follow, EG: if you follow 2100 people, i would delete 1000 of them and then you can follow 1000 more the next day without hitting the limit,, this will probably give you an extra 500 to 700 followers making your follower count 2700 - do that again EG: now that you have 2700 followers and your probably following 3000 something, go and delete another 1000 and then follow 1000 new people and the next day you will probably have 3500 something followers.
Hope this explains how to get past that dreadful twitter 2000 initial cap.
Mike.
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Appreciate the info on the limits. I am torn between rapidly increasing followers (and wondering whether that is a good strategy given what I do) or continuing to grow organically (because unless you have a platform like a book provides I have found "selling" anything related to leadership and org change requires relationship) so your post gave me some good food for thought.
ReplyDeleteYour suggestion on how to use #followfriday to increase followers may work on the numbers front, but isn't twitter about relationships and engaging? Seems like you are recommending just a numbers game.
I got your #ff rec, followed you back so your strategy worked perfectly with me. And now that I am reading this post I feel duped wondering if you even know anything about me at all. For me this turns #followfriday into nothing more than spam.
There are of course no official rules and I am not trying to be the twitter police so your strategy is certainly not wrong. But for anyone interested in creating relationships on twitter I think this is a bad strategy.
Am I missing something?