I was reminded this week when asked by a friend about how to get over the twitter 2k limit. My friend was new to twitter and had been trying to build a following as quickly as he could for his business. He started adding friends and when he got around the 2000 number he was no longer able to follow anyone. Being new he thought he did something wrong so he created another account and did it again. So he starts following people and when he gets around the 2000 number of people he is following he again can not follow anyone. The number it stops him at is not the same but near the 2K point. Since the two numbers are not exactly the same it is less apparent what is going on. At this point he is getting frustrated. What the heck is going on. What am I doing wrong. I don’t get it.
It was at this time that he saw an ad I had written that was titled “I have over 80K followers on Twitter” He saw this ad on Facebook and since we are Facebook friends he reached out to me and asked. “What is the secret to the 2K limit with Twitter” You see he had added 20 accounts on twitter and had reached the limit all 20 times. He saw the pattern that it stopped around 2000 but did not know what to do.
Twitter has put limits in place that keep people from doing exactly what my fiend was doing and that is following as many people as he could in hopes that they would follow him back. You see on Twitter the only people that see your tweets are those that are following you. So the key is to get as many people as you can to follow you so when you tweet they see your tweets. So to keep people from following thousands and thousands of people in hopes that some follow them back and then give that person an opportunity to spam their follows with sales pages, twitter has put limits in place. The limit is 10%. You can not follow more than 10% more people than are following you. Twitter does not enforce the 10% limit until you get to 2000 people you are following.
So what this means is that you need to have 1901 people following you before you can follow 2001. Now these numbers are not exact which is why it is not so easily detected by the newbie to twitter. Twitter checks for limits on a timed schedule and depending on when they last check and how many followers you have and setting the locks and unlocks the actual numbers are around these limits but rarely exact. So what I advise people is to get their followers up to 1950 and they will see that the limit is lifted and they can add more followers.
Please let me know what you think about this content. I welcome all comments. I hope that it helps you to be able to attain what you want out of your business.
