{"id":10200,"date":"2016-01-17T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucindah8.sg-host.com\/?p=10200"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T14:06:30","slug":"twitter-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growmap.com\/twitter-limits","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Limits Have CHANGED: Did You Know There Are At Least 8? #twitterlimits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has changed many of their limits over time. I bet you don&#8217;t know about all the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">changes shown below in red<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/vX4bvJXLmTrdwz?startSlide=26\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Special thanks to Julie Weishaar at NewHorizons123.com for turning my Twitter Best Practices post into the<br>\nSlideShare above. If you want your content turned into a SlideShare or video, <a href=\"http:\/\/newhorizons123.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">contact Julie here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a rumor reported in many places that Twitter may eliminate the 140 character tweet length limit and allow basically blog posts of up to 10,000 characters. If they do, only the first 140 are likely to be shown in our Twitter streams with a &#8220;read more&#8221; link. The probably reason for this is that they want to keep people on Twitter and not have us sending their users off to read our posts.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t obvious to most Twitter users that there are <strong><del>seven<\/del> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">eight<\/span> types of Twitter limits that affect regular Twitter users<\/strong> that I have identified so far.<\/p>\n<h2>TWITTER LIMITS:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><del>2,000<\/del> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Now 5,000<\/span> Twitter Followers Limit<\/strong>: You can&#8217;t follow more than 5,000 until almost 5,000 follow you. This is the toughest limit to deal with so if you notice someone is at 5,000 don&#8217;t unfollow them for not following you back (because they can&#8217;t) and consider tweeting a #followfriday recommendation for them so they can get past that limit. When you hit this limit you will see the message: &#8221; You are unable to follow more people. Please read about our following limits. &#8221; <strong>SOLUTION<\/strong>: You have to unfollow non-followers in order to follow anyone else. A Twitter App like JustUnfollow as I explained in this strategy for <a title=\"How to grow past the 2000 limit explained here\" href=\"https:\/\/growmap.com\/twittercounter\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Growing Twitter Followers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Twitter Followers to Following Percentage Limit<\/strong>: You can only follow about 10% more people than follow you. According to Twitter: &#8220;this limit is different for every user and is based on your ratio of followers to following.&#8221; When you hit this limit, we\u2019ll tell you by showing an error message in your browser. You\u2019ll need to wait until you have more followers in order to follow more users\u2014basically, you can&#8217;t follow 10,000 people if only 100 people follow you.&#8221; <strong>SOLUTION:<\/strong> Same as for limit #1 just above.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Following (daily)<\/strong>: 1000 &#8211; Joe from Internet Marketing for Local Business believes (and I agree) that there are what he called &#8220;velocity limits&#8221;&#8230;in other words just as the tweets per day are split up by hour so is following. While you can follow 1000 per day you can&#8217;t follow them too quickly or you&#8217;ll hit a limit that may lock down your account for up to 24 hours. I believe it is safer to follow during off hours instead of during prime U.S. business hours if you don&#8217;t want to hit that limit. You wouldn&#8217;t want to be unable to tweet something important because you did. [NOTE: especially in newer accounts, following too many can get your account suspended. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/15790?lang=en#\" target=\"_blank\">Information about how to recover your Twitter account here<\/a>.]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tweets Per Day<\/strong>: Originally <del>1000<\/del>, but now <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>2400 tweets per day<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tweets Per Hour<\/strong> (or semi-hourly interval?): I have not found a specific number; however, one could theorize this would be approximately <del>1000<\/del> NOW 2400 divided by 24 hours = about <del>41<\/del> <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">NOW ~100 tweets per hour<\/span><\/strong>. (They have to be spread across the entire hour &#8211; not all sent in 15 minutes.) See <a title=\"&quot;There is no right number of tweets per day for everyone, but 1,000 would be generally agreed upon by most social media managers as far too many.&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/alltwitter\/know-your-limits-how-many-tweets-can-you-post-per-day_b13242\" rel=\"nofollow\">How Many Tweets Can You Post Per Day<\/a> for more details.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Direct Messages<\/strong>: Originally <del>250<\/del> per day, but now 1000 per day; originally limited DMs to <del>140<\/del> characters; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">now up to 10,000 characters<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Changes to Account Email<\/strong>: 4 per hour<\/li>\n<li><strong>Twitter Lists: <\/strong>You can now make up to <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1,000 lists<\/span><\/strong> (up from <del>20<\/del>), and each list can include up to <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5,000 accounts<\/span><\/strong> (up from <del>500<\/del>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unfollowing Limit? <\/strong>While some speculate that there is an unfollowing limit, and Twitter has forced unfollowing tools to remove the option to bulk unfollow, in my account I have unfollowed thousands in one night (one at a time). Remember that my account is very well established, so there may be unfollowing limits on new or smaller accounts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Brian D. Hawkins from HotBlogTips home of some of the very best blogging tips shared this important bit of advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Even though we stay well below the radar when it comes<br>\nto Twitter limits, <\/strong><strong>there\u2019s always the risk of being<br>\nsquashed if we&#8217;re not careful. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He commented that Website Magazine just had a very informative article on how to keep from being banned by Twitter as they go through this huge review process. A lot of decent people are loosing their accounts everyday by doing what most of us might consider business as usual. Read their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websitemagazine.com\/content\/blogs\/posts\/archive\/2011\/09\/01\/dropping-the-banhammer-on-twitter.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ban This! New Rules for Twitter Users<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever hear of anyone having their account banned get the word out. Maybe if we rally to the defense of someone who has a quality Twitter account they will reconsider and unban them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">NOTE: Twitter usernames are still limited to 15 characters.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If this cartoon applies to you (or even if it doesn&#8217;t), you&#8217;ll want to keep this link for reference.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10205\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10205 \" title=\"twitterdicted\" src=\"https:\/\/growmap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/twitterdicted.gif\" alt=\"twitterdicted\" width=\"504\" height=\"324\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~ Image Credit: Brad Fitzpatrick Humourous Cartoon Illustrations ~ Need a custom cartoon or clipart done? Use the contact tab on his blog to contact Brad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>Official Twitter Pages About Twitter Limits:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter Following Rules and Best Practices<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Limits alleviate some of the strain on the behind-the-scenes part of Twitter, and reduce downtime and error pages. \" href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/15364-about-twitter-limits-update-api-dm-and-following\" rel=\"nofollow\">What Twitter Says About Limits<\/a> (Update, API, DM, and Following)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Twitter has imposed reasonable limits to help prevent system strain and limit abuse. If you hit a technical limit, we\u2019ll tell you by showing an error message in your browser when you try to perform an action. \" href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/66885-i-can-t-follow-people-follow-limits\" rel=\"nofollow\">I Can&#8217;t Follow People &#8211; Twitter Follow Limits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"This page discusses some of the limits and best practices regarding following on Twitter.\" href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/entries\/68916\" rel=\"nofollow\">Following Rules and Best Practices<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"Limitations on the type of content that can be published with Twitter. \" href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/entries\/18311\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Be sure to check out my <a title=\"Everything you need all in one place\" href=\"https:\/\/growmap.com\/twitter-best-practices\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter Best Practices<\/a> page<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Contains this post and everything from getting started on Twitter<\/strong><br>\n<strong>To advanced Twitter Strategies for Businesses and Bloggers<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"swp-hidden-panel-wrap\" style=\"display: none; visibility: collapse; opacity: 0\"><div class=\"swp_social_panel swp_horizontal_panel swp_flat_fresh  swp_default_full_color swp_individual_full_color swp_other_full_color scale-100  scale-\" data-min-width=\"1100\" data-float-color=\"#ffffff\" data-float=\"bottom\" data-float-mobile=\"none\" data-transition=\"slide\" data-post-id=\"10200\" ><div class=\"nc_tweetContainer swp_share_button swp_twitter\" data-network=\"twitter\"><a class=\"nc_tweet swp_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Twitter+Limits+Have+CHANGED%3A+Did+You+Know+There+Are+At+Least+8%3F+%23twitterlimits&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowmap.com%2Ftwitter-limits&via=growmap\" data-link=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Twitter+Limits+Have+CHANGED%3A+Did+You+Know+There+Are+At+Least+8%3F+%23twitterlimits&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowmap.com%2Ftwitter-limits&via=growmap\"><span class=\"iconFiller\"><span class=\"spaceManWilly\"><i class=\"sw swp_twitter_icon\"><\/i><span class=\"swp_share\">Tweet<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"swp_count\">662<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"nc_tweetContainer swp_share_button swp_facebook\" data-network=\"facebook\"><a class=\"nc_tweet swp_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowmap.com%2Ftwitter-limits\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowmap.com%2Ftwitter-limits\"><span class=\"swp_count swp_hide\"><span class=\"iconFiller\"><span class=\"spaceManWilly\"><i class=\"sw swp_facebook_icon\"><\/i><span class=\"swp_share\">Share<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"nc_tweetContainer swp_share_button swp_linkedin\" data-network=\"linkedin\"><a class=\"nc_tweet swp_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/cws\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowmap.com%2Ftwitter-limits\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/cws\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowmap.com%2Ftwitter-limits\"><span class=\"iconFiller\"><span class=\"spaceManWilly\"><i class=\"sw swp_linkedin_icon\"><\/i><span class=\"swp_share\">Share<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"swp_count\">105<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"nc_tweetContainer swp_share_button swp_pinterest\" data-network=\"pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" class=\"nc_tweet swp_share_link\" data-count=\"0\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/growmap.com\/twitter-limits&media=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowmap.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F09%2FTwitterLimitsSlide.jpg&description=Twitter+Limits+Have+CHANGED%3A+Did+You+Know+There+Are+At+Least+8%3F+%23twitterlimits+via+%40GrowMap\" href=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/growmap.com\/twitter-limits&media=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowmap.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F09%2FTwitterLimitsSlide.jpg&description=Twitter+Limits+Have+CHANGED%3A+Did+You+Know+There+Are+At+Least+8%3F+%23twitterlimits+via+%40GrowMap\" ><span class=\"iconFiller\"><span class=\"spaceManWilly\"><i class=\"sw swp_pinterest_icon\"><\/i><span class=\"swp_share\">Pin<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"swp_count\">45<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"nc_tweetContainer swp_share_button total_shares total_sharesalt\" ><span class=\"swp_count \">812 <span class=\"swp_label\">Shares<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has changed many of their limits over time. I bet you don&#8217;t know about all the changes shown below in red. Special thanks to Julie Weishaar at NewHorizons123.com for turning my Twitter Best Practices post into the SlideShare above. If you want your content turned into a SlideShare or video, contact Julie here. 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