Building Your Twitter Followers Part 1: Twitter Follow Limits
If you have a Twitter account, then your goal should be to build as many followers as you possibly can. This process can be very time consuming and annoying if you do it manually. Fortunately, there is a better way to this, and that way is by using an auto-follow engine.
Unfortunately, unless you are already well known, you will probably have to deal with the limits that are set by Twitter.
Here are the follow limits that you need to know about:
First, you cannot follow more than 1,000 new people in a 24 hour period. This works all the way up until you get to 2,000 followers. Once you hit that mark, you have hit what we call “the wall”.
Second, you are only allowed to follow a certain number of people after you have followed 2,000 people. That ratio is 10% of the amount of followers you have. What that means is that if you are following 2000 people and only 10 are following you, then you are stuck, and you will not be able to follow more until more follow you! If you are following 2,000 and you have 1,900 followers, then you will be able to increase the people that you follow up to 2,190. If you had 3196 followers then you will be able to increase the people that you follow up to 3516 people.
The main reason that well known people do not have to deal with these limits is that they generally have more followers than people that they are following. Twitter does not have a limit on how many can follow you. The percentage of individuals that follow few and have huge numbers of followers is very low.
That leaves the rest of us…
So what happens when you follow 2000 people and only 10 follow you?
You have to lose some followers, and go find some more. Getting followers on Twitter is all about following and unfollowing and following and unfollowing and on and on.
Now let’s imagine doing all this by hand. That’s right… I mean physically unfollowing people that don’t follow you. Then, following up to 1,000 people a day, one by one. It’s pretty hard to imagine, but I used to do it. As a matter of fact, I used to do it with 2 and sometimes 3 different Twitter accounts per day.
In part two of this four part article, I will talk about how to manually find followers to build a massive Twitter account.
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