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pointlessbanter replied on October 07, 2008 17:37 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

I have hit the 2000 follower limit and I can no longer add users to my account even though I have people requesting me. Yes I don't have a 1:1 following ratio but I am not some crazy spammer. I have a semi popular blog and people keep adding me... How to I get my limits raised besides being Robert Scoble or someone like that.

A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Fwiw, there's no limit to the number of people who can follow you, afaik. The Follow limit only applies to the number of people that each account can follow. – mdy, on October 06, 2008 13:51

RBLevin replied on October 06, 2008 12:34 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

People should be able to follow and be followed by an unlimited number. I can see restricting tweets and directs, but limiting the service's ability to serve as an information feed is nuts.

A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

As opposed to an arbitrary limit? Absolutely. – radioproducer1, on October 03, 2008 00:56

A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

I believe you were the one suggesting that middle ground. – Thomas, on October 03, 2008 00:40

A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

So you want everyone to be able to read your posts, but you don't want just anyone following you? Seems like there should be some middle ground in many areas. – radioproducer1, on October 03, 2008 00:37

Thomas replied on October 03, 2008 00:04 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Here's an idea: let me block someone via the lingo so that I can do it from my twitter client without loading the website.

A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

No, if you set your profile as private, people have to follow you to even read your posts. There's no middle ground, approve followers, but keep posts public. – Thomas, on October 03, 2008 00:04

radioproducer1 replied on October 02, 2008 23:31 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Isn't that what the settings are for? Can't you set them so you approve followers? I know many on Twitter do that.

DalekKiller replied on October 02, 2008 22:29 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Being followed by a large number of spam followers is far more annoying. I've had to protect my updates to stop them and I need the email notification to let me know when I've got a genuine follower. If you've not experienced 10 followers in 1 hour all with the same ad which can range from lame to pornographic, you will have no idea what it's like.

radioproducer1 replied on October 02, 2008 21:44 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

I was only trying to suggest that if it's an annoyance, it seems like a better idea to disable the notification system than to set arbitrary limits for everyone.

Nice opening line, though, genius.

Ken

A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Are you crazy? I'm not just calling you names, I'm quite curious. Did you set it so if someone tries to friend you on myspace or facebook, you don't get a notice? People like to know who's following them, and an e-mail letting them know is a good way to do it. It is pretty hard to advocate disabling e-mail notices of new followers, especially when so many people find it useful. I have not once seen in this thread (before your post) someone advocate setting the default to "don't let me know a spammer is following me and potentially reading my posts". In fact, several people in this thread advocate FOR the e-mail notices, claiming they're following their customers or people that they're interested in and they think might be interested back. For example, @tweetupbadges follows people who mention tweetups and offers their services. That's not spam, that's thoughtful marketing. Think before you post. – Thomas, on October 02, 2008 21:41

radioproducer1 replied on October 02, 2008 21:11 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

So Twitter has imposed an arbitrary cap because users are too stupid to change their settings? Brilliant!

Ken

A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Hi REI. "Follow spam" works this way:

1. Twitter lets us specify if we want to be notified when someone follows us. I think it's safe to assume that a lot of users leave that setting on by default.

2. Spammers create a lot of accounts and start following thousands of other users with each account. Before follow limits were imposed, there were spam accounts that would follow well over 10,000 users. This causes Twitter to send "you have a new follower" email notification to all the people who were followed.

3. People who receive the "new follower' email notification are curious to see who has followed them. So they go visit the profile, only to find that their new follower is someone whose only tweet is an ad and a link to the product that the spammer is pushing.

Twitter consequently started capping the number of people that we can follow to limit the annoyance that is caused by a mass-following spammy account before Twitter gets a chance to suspend it.

I know this doesn't really solve your immediate problem, but I hope the info helps answer one of your questions. – mdy, on October 02, 2008 19:46

REI replied on October 02, 2008 19:34 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

The twitter limit for number of people you follow could lead to people using multiple accounts.

I use Twitter to understand a group with similar interests. One easy one to reference is Realtors. I am interested in what is going on in the local markets and I want the local view. Twitter Realtors might be a self-selecting group but it still works for me. If I follow a lot there is little reason why they would follow me back. Somewhat asymetric information flow by design.

Hitting the limit without any real information about what my choices are leads me to consider just watching different accounts when I want to understand different topics. Maybe not post from different accounts submitting a Tweet has a different purpose than observing a group.

I get the idea that keeping some things quiet makes it easier to fight SPAM. I do not see why following too many triggers SPAM if I am following but not many are following me. It could be that I am just naive on this one.

Thomas replied on September 10, 2008 05:13 to the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

Rick Sanchez from CNN claims to be receiving preferential treatment

**from Rick's producer** Twitter folks tell us the "follow limit" issue is a bug. They are working to fix it now.

M. Hamzah Khan replied on September 09, 2008 00:45 to the problem "Fake accounts being created with my email addresses" in Twitter:

It says my account doesn't exist :(

mdy replied on September 07, 2008 06:45 to the problem "Fake accounts being created with my email addresses" in Twitter:

Hi marshymutt. If someone has used your email address to register a Twitter account, you can take over that account by doing this:

1. Go to Twitter's Password Resend page at http://twitter.com/account/resend_pas...

2. In the form provided, enter your email address and click the [Reset my password] button.

This causes Twitter to send an email to your email address. That email will contain a link that you can click to change the password of the Twitter account that is using your email address.

3. Login to your email account and look for the password reset email from Twitter. Click the link in that email.

4. In the web page that loads, specify a new password for the Twitter account. Once you've changed the password, the Twitter account will now be under your control.

marshymutt replied on September 07, 2008 05:54 to the problem "Fake accounts being created with my email addresses" in Twitter:

Christa,

I understand and sympathize with your problem. I was invited to join Twitter and found, when trying to register, that my email address, which is my full name @hotmail.com...obviously belonging to me and no one else for many years...already existed. That person is not me and using not only my email address but also my name. I have o idea how or what they have said, but I have never been a member of Twitter before so feel publicly assaulted and robbed.

A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

They changed their trouble ticket system recently, but there's no reason to file duplicate tickets unless the previous one was suddenly closed. This just creates more work for them. Compile all the people doing the same thing you did together, and you end up realizing that they're wasting a lot of time on duplicate tickets. – Thomas, on September 06, 2008 05:47