Some journalists who are strongly active on Twitter reach a ceiling on how many people you can follow.
The ceiling is a response to spammers, who used to follow people endlessly, but it’s ridiculous that Twitter hasn’t developed a way to waive the ceiling for valid users. More later on this frustration (including a weak response from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo last month).
But first, a #twutorial explanation of how the ceiling works and what you can do if you bump against it:
What the ceiling is
Any Twitter user can follow up to 2,000 other Twitter accounts without restriction. Once you hit 2,000, the number you can follow depends on how many people can follow you. The ceiling doesn’t limit me. Since I have 14K followers, I have been able to follow more than 3K without limit. Where you run into trouble is if you’re following more people than follow you.
The limit seems to be somewhere around 80 percent, though it’s not consistent. So, if you’re following 2,000 people but have fewer than 1,600 followers, you’ve probably hit the ceiling. But the ceiling doesn’t automatically come off as you go over 1,600. Once it comes into effect, it’s kind of a mystery how it works.
Chad Selweski, a political reporter at the Macomb Daily (follow him, please), wrote me about the problem earlier this year:
I was told that, beyond 2,000, you need followers that are at least 80 percent of the number you are following. I am beyond that 80 percent mark and I’m still banned from following anyone.
I asked Chad for an update this week:
My ceiling comes and goes. Very odd. The hard-and-fast ceiling that I talked to you about in the past – 2,000 followings — disappeared sometime in April or May.
This morning, after receiving your email, I added 12 followings and never received the dreaded pop-up message from Twitter that said I had exceeded my limit. That’s a good day in Twitterland.
My current ratio is: following 2,117, followed by 1,929. So, nearly 50-50.
Another Digital First journalist who’s hit the limit, Buffy Andrews (follow her, please), explained how frustrating the ceiling is:
Not being able to follow more people has been problematic in many ways.
Even though my followers continue to increase month over month, I cannot get past the ceiling. …
Since I do a lot of digital content marketing, my need to broaden my base is essential to building relationships and connecting with people from various fields. How am I supposed to build and nurture relationships if I’m prevented from establishing these relationships?
Plus, it seems that if I could follow more people I’d be able to grow my followers even faster. But I’ve been stuck at the ceiling forever, and I feel like it is preventing me from doing my job to the best of my ability. We know that Twitter is all about connecting, but I am being held back from making connections that could help me promote and share the great content we produce.
Bottom line, I need Twitter to lift the ceiling so that I can do my job. It is holding me back and I’ve been very frustrated by the lack of response to what I see is a real problem.
What to do
Unfollow some people. Use Friend or Follow or Just Unfollow to identify people you follow who aren’t following you back. Some of them might be important to follow, so you still want to follow them. Don’t unfollow people you recognize as those you’ve had meaningful conversations with or those who share links you find helpful. But some of those people may not be very active or otherwise aren’t a meaningful part of your timeline, even though they count against the ceiling.
Maybe you followed someone in the community, hoping they would follow you back, but they didn’t and they tweet about matters that are trivial to you rather than about community events and issues.
Unfollowing people has been helpful to Chad:
To give myself some extra space, I did weed out some of my lame followings from my early days getting started on Twitter. But my addition of followings comes in bursts.
Caution: Twitter’s rules don’t allow you to regularly follow and unfollow many accounts at a time. Odd that one Twitter rule might force some people into violating another rule. But I think if you unfollow and follow a handful at a time you should be fine.
Use lists to “follow” without following. You can make lists of Twitter users that you can follow in a column on TweetDeck or HootSuite or by clicking on the list from Twitter.com or a mobile app. These users’ tweets don’t show up on your timeline and they can’t direct-message you because you’re not following them. But you can pretty easily keep tabs on their tweets.
What you could do is identify a type of users whose tweets you want to monitor but with whom you’re unlikely to exchange direct messages and put them on a list but unfollow them (you can’t DM someone who isn’t following you, so they wouldn’t be able to DM you). You would need to check the list frequently, but you wouldn’t technically follow those tweets.
If you follow some national political, entertainment or sports figures, they are unlikely to DM you (unless you cover them, perhaps), and you could put them on a list.
Update: Steve Saldivar, social media coordinator at The Getty, added this advice on Facebook: “I would recommend listing organizations (and not people). The former tend to never DM.” What other advice would you suggest?
Twitter is no help
OK, here we move from providing advice on using Twitter to complaining about the company. My dealings with Twitter illustrate how cavalier the company is, from the CEO down, in terms of user service.
Most of my requests for help from Twitter have been met with silence or brush-offs. (Two exceptions: I had a nice lunch with Mark S. Luckie when he became Twitter’s manager of journalism and news about a year ago; and Erica Anderson helped me get whitelisted so I could tweet without limits during the Online News Association lightning round for board candidates last year, a few months after hitting Twitter’s hourly tweet limit during the American Society of News Editors convention.)
I think I asked about the follower limit in 2011 or 2012 on behalf of a Digital First colleague and was ignored. Optimistic that things would be better under Luckie, I emailed him earlier this year, asking for help with Chad.
Mark replied on Jan. 10 by carboning “Tyler Pilgrim from our User Services team who can help you get an answer.”
Pilgrim’s answer, also Jan. 10, was pretty much a raised middle finger:
Every user can follow 2000 people total. Once you’ve followed 2000 users, there are limits to the number of additional users you can follow: this limit is different for every user and is based on your ratio of followers to following. You’ll need to wait until you have more followers in order to follow more users—basically, you can’t follow 10,000 people if only 100 people follow you. Unfortunately, we are unable to change this limit.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
The words I italicized above are simply not true. Twitter works how Twitter engineers have designed it to work. They are able to change the limit just as they were able to impose the limit and to design it to work the way that it works. A ratio of 2-1 would stop the spammers without inhibiting legitimate users nearly as severely as the current limit.
Twitter engineers also developed a way to whitelist some users to exempt them from the limit on how often you can tweet. I’m pretty sure the same engineers are able to waive this limitation. But Twitter chooses not to.
My Jan. 10 reply to Pilgrim:
Chad has 1,662 followers and follows 2,001. Surely your ratio is not 1.2:1? That doesn’t make any sense. Why in the world would you want to limit the Twitter use of someone with that many followers?
Despite his invitation to let him know if I had other questions, he never answered that question or answered the email at all. So I emailed Pilgrim, Luckie and Anderson Jan. 18:
I never got a response to this message. Can we get this fixed? If it’s your policy to limit Twitter use by journalists with this kind of ratio, that policy makes no sense. If it’s not your policy, this is a glitch that should be fixed. We’d like to get Chad freed up to follow people again.
Luckie was a guest Jan. 30 for one of our first Inside Thunderdome live chats. I asked the question there, but it wasn’t approved for addressing in the chat because Mark said he’d address it privately. So after the chat I sent him a private email, saying:
I just can’t believe that Twitter can’t lift the following limitation for a professional journalist with 85 percent as many followers as he follows. And I’m really disappointed with never getting a response to my questions from Tyler.
I got no response to that, nor to a brief Feb. 6 email to Mark, reminding him of my request. So I wrote a longer message Feb. 7, mentioning Buffy as well:
For crying out loud, both of these people have more than 80 percent as many followers as they follow. I think your limits aren’t working. What is the “ratio” Tyler referred to? Is it really higher than 80 percent? What sense does that make? Do you really want to limit people this active from using Twitter fully? Aren’t you supposed to be the advocate for journalists? This isn’t how Twitter should work. If we can’t get a better response on this, I’m going to have to blog about how pointless this limit is and how disappointing Twitter’s response has been. To wait this long to get blown off like this is really disappointing.
Again, no response.
Anderson also blew me off on another matter (about which Luckie had referred me to her) around the same time frame. Though I had carboned her on this issue, I never addressed it directly with her. I planned to raise it with her on the phone when we discussed the other issue. But she never replied to multiple emails asking to discuss the other issue with her.
I took another shot last month when Costolo, Twitter’s top executive, was a luncheon speaker at the American Society of News Editors conference. When Costolo was taking answers from the floor, I asked him about the follower limit and Twitter’s lousy user service and why they don’t figure out a way to waive the limit for journalists (and other people) who are obviously using Twitter conversationally.
I asked @dickc about Twitter’s 2K limit on following people unless you have almost as many followers. Problem for some journos. #asne13
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) June 26, 2013
.@dickc answer to my question: Yeah, they should fix, but they’re dealing with lots of shit. #asne13
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) June 26, 2013
Like me RT @stevebuttry: I asked @dickc about Twitter’s 2K limit on following people. Problem for some journos. #asne13
— Mitchell Byars (@mitchellbyars) June 26, 2013
it was a longer reply“@stevebuttry: .@dickc answer to my question: Yeah, they should fix, but they’re dealing with lots of shit. #asne13”
— Frank Scandale (@FScandale) June 26, 2013
@FScandale @dickc Why I didn’t use quote marks.
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) June 26, 2013
Frank was right that the answer was longer than my tweet, but certainly it’s fair game to boil an answer from Twitter CEO’s down to 140 characters.
He said something about lots of other priorities for Twitter’s engineers. This was not long after he said that Twitter’s staff is something like 50 percent engineers. You can’t tell me that Twitter’s engineers aren’t smart enough to figure out a solution for this. They just don’t care.
I’ve blogged a lot about Twitter’s value for journalists. Occasionally I’ll get accused of being a shill for the company. Far from it. I’ve ripped the company before and probably will again. I’ve been repeatedly amazed at how unresponsive Twitter is.
When you hit Twitter’s follower limit (or want help from Twitter on pretty much anything), you’re on your own.
Responses on Twitter
I’m stuck at 2,001 RT @stevebuttry: What to do if you hit Twitter’s stupid limit on how many people you can follow? http://t.co/d6m4tSMfU1
— Mitchell Byars (@mitchellbyars) July 12, 2013
@stevebuttry And follow @MagicRecs, it’s oddly brilliant at DMing relevant users to follow and tweets of note.
— Ivan Lajara (@ivanlajara) July 12, 2013
@AnnaTarkov Because users are their most important asset.
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) July 12, 2013
.@stevebuttry includes my “rant” in his Twitter post. Will they listen? They haven’t yet! http://t.co/YkZb9QeQt3 @twitter #tech
— Buffy Andrews (@Buffyandrews) July 12, 2013
@stevebuttry I’m once again allowed to follow people, with 2,119 people following me; I follow 2,105. Not sure how long it will last.
— Philip Heron (@PhilHeron) July 12, 2013
@mitchellbyars @stevebuttry I’ve been stuck there for a couple years now…
— Robert Rowe III (@rorowe) July 12, 2013
I have the same problem. RT @journtoolbox: What to do if you hit Twitter’s follower ceiling http://t.co/78CgjK4DS5 (via @stevebuttry)
— Denise Reagan (@denisereagan) July 12, 2013
@rorowe @stevebuttry It’s frustrating because you have to unfollow people, which Twitter hates
— Mitchell Byars (@mitchellbyars) July 12, 2013
@Buffyandrews @stevebuttry For sources, lists are sufficient; for audience development you don’t have to rely on following. Hangout?
— Steffen Konrath (@StKonrath) July 12, 2013
Useful for #journalists MT @stevebuttry: What to do if you hit Twitter’s stupid limit on how many you can follow: http://t.co/M2uLHnDzbe
— marc blank-settle (@MarcSettle) July 12, 2013
.@fritzklug Valid question. As you start following more, you need to use lists, alerts, searches effectively: http://t.co/5tbYEF7ndj
— Steve Buttry (@stevebuttry) July 12, 2013
.@stevebuttry And it's not easy to add people to lists on @twittermobile.
— Denise Reagan (@denisereagan) July 12, 2013
Earlier #twutorial posts
Read Jeremy Stahl’s guide to tweeting during a crisis
#twutorial post: How to embed tweets and follow conversations
Step one for using Twitter as a reporter: Master advanced search
Use lists, TweetDeck, HootSuite, saved searches, alerts to organize Twitter’s chaos
Denver Post staffers’ #theatershooting coverage demonstrates Twitter breaking news techniques
Hashtags help journalists find relevant tweets and reach more people
Advice and examples on how and what journalists should tweet
9 ways to find helpful people and organizations to follow on Twitter
To build Twitter followers: Join the conversation, tweet often, be yourself
10 ways Twitter is valuable for journalists
Updated Twitter time management tips
Don’t be selfish on Twitter; tweeting useful information is good business
What’s the best way to view Twitter’s users? 16 percent or 30 million
Twitter data shows journos’ ‘burstiness’ boosts followers
#Twutorial guest post from Deanna Utroske: Tips for twinterviewing
#Twutorial guest post by Menachem Wecker: How to use Twitter to find the best sources
#Twutorial guest post by Jaclyn Schiff: How using Storify can help you find great sources
Getting started on Twitter: #twutorial advice for a friend
Should a journalist livetweet a funeral? If so, how?
Use Twitter for conversation about an event, not just promotion
How to verify information from tweets: check it out
In addition, these two posts that predate the #twutorial series cover some of the points I’ll make in the workshop:
Beyond avoiding the follow-limit, lists are an effective way to slice through the clutter and isolate accounts by subject, industry, geographic area, etc. It’s worth noting, however, Twitter sets a limit on how many lists you can create. If someone else has created public a list that suits your purposes, it might be worth your while to subscribe to that list instead.
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Thank you! There are a lot of great ideas here. I’ve kept hitting the follow limit recently, and have a long way to “reach the next level”. I’m going to use TweetDeck and lists to alleviate the frustration.
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Never got the time to comment the other day. Boy, Steve, you sure didn’t hold back.
Thanks for giving my ceiling problem some coverage (and mentioning/linking to) my blog.
This is one of those instances in which I shake my head and wonder how a company became so hugely successful when they have huge problems running an effective operation.
Chad
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Thanks for trying to explain this whole follow limit and the hidden ratio. I’m not a journalist, neither am I “aggressively following” anyone. I only have 484 followers and somehow have been allowed to follow 2002.
I don’t follow accounts unless I am genuinely interested. The limit is increasingly annoying as there are accounts in my fields of interest that I really want to follow and can’t.
The Twitter rules are going to force me to unfollow some of my less well considered follows from when I first had an account even though Twitter don’t like “churn”. As stated above one of their rules will push me towards going against another of their rules.
Also the anti churn rule is so vaguely defined that I will be unsure what I am allowed to do. It is not as if I am trying to use the service in a delinquent way or trying to get around the rules. I wish to use the service in good faith and wish to unfollow some less well considered follows so that I can follow accounts I am interested in within this arbitrary limit.
Until I read your blog I had no idea of what was going on or how many followers I need before I can follow more accounts. I still am mostly in the dark but at least you have helped, which is more than I can say about Twitter.
I can’t understand why Twitter are so cagey about the subject?
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Does anyone know the number of messages Twitter allows a person to send using another member’s @address? My account was also suspended for sending out such messages (perhaps 40 a day for a week) in an effort to familiarize people with my published novel. When I did this about two years ago Twitter simply popped up a message saying I exceeded the limit and would not be able to continue until the next day. Now, without warning, they just suspend your account. Am I wrong, or are the people running Twitter infected with a streak of intolerance .. . fascism, even? If anyone has a answer to my @address question, please contact me at stanleybrookoff@yahoo.com. Thanks.
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I see you condone the Unfollow if users you follow don’t follow back mentality. Completely not what Twitter is about IMHO.
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You missed the point entirely. If Twitter won’t allow you to follow more people, you need to do something to be able to follow more. Unfollowing people who aren’t useful to you (whether they follow you might be one way of judging that, but not the only way) is one way to do that. Lists are another. I don’t unfollow people who don’t follow me back. I follow people who interest me. Period.
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Not a journalist. I follow a lot of organizational/news accounts that obviously don’t follow back, and am followed mainly by friends or friends of friends. The 2,000 limit is annoying because there are many organization or leaders I want to follow but can’t because of the limit. So my solution has been not to bother with Twitter, but to follow them on Facebook. I guess that’s what Twitter wants.
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Diane, I’m in your shoes exactly. The 2,000 person limit makes Twitter decidedly less useful.
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Surprised Twitter haven’t found a way to use something like the verified account status to resolve this issue. Surely there is some part that can be easily adapted to allow for journalists and other professionals who may be in the same situation to follow large numbers of people and organizations. Unfortunately this wouldn’t help people like Diane above but it would be a start.
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I still don’t understand how the follow limit works. Cause I have 1,896 followers and my follow limit is still 2,001. Though I do maintain who follows and unfollows with the app unfollowers.me
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I need your help, I can’t follow anyone on Twitter and I haven’t rapidly followed anyone, I’ve followed, like, about 1 or 2 users per day. I have 1,633 followers and I am following 2,001 people.. it has been around about a week and I still cannot follow anyone. Please help me!
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Tyra, the only way I can help you is with the advice I’ve posted here.
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My problem is I hit the following limit I followed people and I unfollowed them at the time I can’t follow anyone anymore and I’m onley following 60 people and my followers are 1000 and all whom I follow are following me what should I do plz help me is it per day?! And every thing will be ok or it’s for ever that I can’t follow anyone plz help
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I wish I could help you. I haven’t heard of that one.
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This is my exact problem! I can’t find any way to fix it!! I have 184 followers and I follow 272. Does the ratio still apply to me even though I have followed so few people?! If so that’s complete bull. And I’m deleting my Twitter.
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I have not heard of this problem before. In fact, I heard that the 2,000 ceiling had been lifted. If you followed too many people too fast, they might have some limit on that, but I have not heard what such a limit might be.
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Twitter’s unpublished algorithm seems to vary. For me, for the moment, I can follow 9.1% more followers than follow me. Crazy as I don’t really want to unfollow interesting tweeps. The comments suggest Twitter people also don’t understand how it works.
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Great write-up on Twitter’s stupid 2,000 following limit! You would think that Twitter would come up with smart rules that make sense. And Yes, we have the technology to root out people who are just following to drive numbers.
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This is such a stupid rule and I have run into it as well. They actually send me emails with lists of people (suggestions) of who I could/should follow – when they won’t even let me follow them. Ridiculous!
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I notice that people have more followers than me. No on even can follow me it doesn’t even matter what I do. So just write me back and tell me what is wrong if you could.
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I’m not sure I understand the situation. I have not heard this complaint before.
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I subscribed to Twitter from the very earliest beginnings… well before it was “K3wl!!1!”. I wasn’t terribly thrilled with it but I managed to follow 3500+ before the limits were put in place. I do have 2760+ following me. But I never tried following people again until this past year and that was when I discovered the limits. So, even though I did nothing wrong and did all my following and got followers long before people were abusing it and limits were imposed, I simply can’t subscribe to anyone new any more… now that all my friends are on, that there are more interesting people on since way back then, etc… I am not allowed to follow any of them.
KINDA FUNNY THAT’S THE SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM FROM A COMPANY THAT IS “ALL ABOUT THE CONVERSATION”
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Stongly agree that twitter follow limits are idiotic. Seems like the kind of policy that will someday make twitter a dinosaur. But until then, why not just create a second twitter account? I plan to move certain categories of follows, most likely those that I would never DT, into what amounts to a read only account.
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Steve, I would love to follow you and the other people you mentioned on Twitter, but guess what I can’t do as of this morning! If you guessed “follow people on Twitter,” you would be absolutely right! It looks like marketing is about to get a whole lot harder for me.
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I suggest using lists and other tips here and unfollowing some people. And, for what it’s worth, I just followed you.
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I appreciate the tips, and I especially appreciate the follow. One of these days, maybe Twitter will let me return the favor!
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i know this is an old post but i am looking for some info on this topic. i have 5,156 followers and follow 5,672 obviously including some that do not follow me. now suddenly i am “unable to follow any more at this time” wtf? i can’t find a reason why.
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I wish I could help you. I haven’t heard of that one before. If it helps, you have lots of company. This is my most-read post ever, with more than 40,000 views. That’s a lot of unhappy Twitter users, but Twitter doesn’t seem to care.
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Hi. What is your opinion about guest blogging ?
Samson Sundar
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I have both written and published guest blog posts. I welcome them here if they are well done and relevant to the topics I address. I reject occasional requests to do guest posts that would promote the cause or company of the writer but have little or nothing to do with topics I normally blog about.
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I have never been the type of person that has to hold hands with someone and do what they tell me to do whenever they have some sort of brain seizure and decide to get all bossy.In an age when communication is really important then it should not be a one way street, Twitter should also be capable of communicating effectively with it’s users. I am too busy to play games with the likes of Twitter and I would just as soon tell them exact;y where to go now they insist on telling me I can no longer follower someone if I choose to. This reminds me of being in a school playground instead of a world of thinking mature adults.This rule is just juvenile and I have no respect for anyone that condones it. Twitter needs to grow up and stop acting like a petulant spoilt kid when things don’t go exactly their way ! They are only shooting themselves in both feet.
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I’m following 2000 and have 1805 followers. Still a ceiling.
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Having just one Twitter account is just not feasible when promoting digital products….
Personally, I have found that Twitter is 24hr based. I use Crowdfire. It is THEE fastest way to follow/unfollow Twitter users. It has the 24hr timer built in and will NOT allow you to over-follow with soft warning.
Check the blog: http://www.CynosureBeats.Wordpress.com
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Stagnant User Growth Sends Twitter Stock Down 14 Percent
( source http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stagnant-user-growth-sends-twitter-811998 )
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Twitter is anathema to me, so I don’t have this problem. I’m sure it is fun for many people, but I just don’t see the allure. This probably makes me a complete social outcast, an absolute philistine, but I’m OK with that.
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And yet you took the time to read this and comment. Fascinating.
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WordPress is the only even vaguely social media outlet I use and I was just taking a look around. I certainly meant no offense.
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No offense taken. Just interested that, given the content of your comment, you took the time to read this old post, much less comment on it.
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I am new to Twitter but just lately I am getting more followers than ever even though I don’t use it much…..Sadly though, I am unable to even thank them for following because their page gets grayed out.I can’t see how a thank you could possibly be something that Twitter does not allow !
Has this got something to do with limits ? If not, what is causing this childish problem that Twitter never tries to solve for me despite sending repeated requests.
One reason I don’t get on with social media is because I feel like a kid in a playground having to ask a playground monitor how to play with my friends according to their rules…Pathetic really but I am trying at least to get used to this very infantile and, too frequently cringeworthy, way of communicating whilst promoting business and other interests.Using my own methods of doing this would make the whole experience much more enjoyable and far more adult I think.
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I’m not familiar with that problem. Wish I could help.
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Thanks for the reply Steve. I later discovered that the outdated Safari browser on my Mac is the problem. Chrome or Firefox will work just fine.I cannot update Safari because my Mac is 32 bit instead of the required 64.
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i have only about 800 followers, but i can still follow more than 2050 jugglers, so maybe twitter just loves jugglers ?
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Actually, I think Twitter has changed the limit (or how it works) since this was posted.
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Regardless of how twitter works (or doesn’t) their behavior toward their “CUSTOMERS” is shameful and absurd. Their pawns err:customers are completely ignored. Twitter has set the new record bottom in “CUSTOMER” service. They are limit focused, control freaks and micro managers of (not with) there customers like no other. Setting limits on use of their platform (a glorified group text app) is unbelievable. Imagine if this was the case with your smart phone. Snap out of it Twitter – way past time for a new CEO. I can’t wait for someone to kick there butts with a platform that destroys twitter in terms of popularity and sucking the entire customer base away from them with a customer focused/friendly solution. Then again twitter will probably self-destruct before that happens.
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