Twitter has Pulver-ized me. Time to move to Plurk?

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Well, Twitter has flipped me the bird.

When I sent in a support request, asking what this was about, a few folks pointed me to a wiki talking about rate limiting – i.e. preventing certain actions for a period of time, like queries to the API.

However, after 4 days, things didn’t get better, so I opened a support case in as many ways as I could. Here was the response I got back:

The follow limit is different for every profile, based on that profile’s activity. If you’ve hit the follow limit for your profile, you can un-follow some people in order to follow others. You can stop following some people to follow others, however, you wont be able to follow more people than you’re following currently.

Twitter has Pulver-ized me – Jeff Pulver encountered the 5K ceiling with Facebook, and had to open a second account.

For those of you who have followed back as many people as you could, be glad you did – that may be all you ever get.

For those folks who view following back as important, I’m sorry to say that Twitter is now preventing that, at least for me.

In the meantime, I’m going to go over to Plurk and play around there some. You’re welcome to join me off Twitter at the following:

https://www.plurk.com/user/financialaidpodcast/

https://friendfeed.com/cspenn

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15 responses to “Twitter has Pulver-ized me. Time to move to Plurk?”

July 4, 2008

david usher

Hey Chris
Ive also reached the 5000 person limit on Facebook. Its interesting that Jeff has opened another page. I actually talked to the Facebook folks about that (I was surprised at how good they are at responding to emails) and they warned me strongly about it being a violation and to use my Facebook Musicians Page instead.
Question:
do any of us really need to follow more than 2000 people on Twitter? Thats a lot of noise:)

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July 4, 2008

david usher

Hey Chris
Ive also reached the 5000 person limit on Facebook. Its interesting that Jeff has opened another page. I actually talked to the Facebook folks about that (I was surprised at how good they are at responding to emails) and they warned me strongly about it being a violation and to use my Facebook Musicians Page instead.
Question:
do any of us really need to follow more than 2000 people on Twitter? Thats a lot of noise:)

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July 4, 2008

david usher

Hey Chris
Ive also reached the 5000 person limit on Facebook. Its interesting that Jeff has opened another page. I actually talked to the Facebook folks about that (I was surprised at how good they are at responding to emails) and they warned me strongly about it being a violation and to use my Facebook Musicians Page instead.
Question:
do any of us really need to follow more than 2000 people on Twitter? Thats a lot of noise:)

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July 22, 2008

GeekMommy

You are kidding?
So if I had mass-followed people 3 days ago, my limit would be maybe 3-4k but now, despite my always having maintained a 1-to-1 ratio and been a strong Twitter supporter, I have to CHOOSE between followers?
That's outrageous.
And if it's true – it will only serve to hurt Twitter – because I have no reason to use a service that won't let me interact with people w/o telling them that some of them aren't “as important” as others.

I'm not a big plurk fan tho.
I'll either be on identi.ca or given my preference Kwippy.com – which has given me unlimited invites and let's me thread comments.

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July 22, 2008

GeekMommy

You are kidding?
So if I had mass-followed people 3 days ago, my limit would be maybe 3-4k but now, despite my always having maintained a 1-to-1 ratio and been a strong Twitter supporter, I have to CHOOSE between followers?
That's outrageous.
And if it's true – it will only serve to hurt Twitter – because I have no reason to use a service that won't let me interact with people w/o telling them that some of them aren't “as important” as others.

I'm not a big plurk fan tho.
I'll either be on identi.ca or given my preference Kwippy.com – which has given me unlimited invites and let's me thread comments.

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July 22, 2008

Matt Searles

Wow.. one wonder's who's making the decisions over there.. can you imagine the meeting where this decision took place?: “yeah, lets take the folks with the most followers, and there for perhaps the most influence, and push them away from our site.. at a time when everyone in the world is getting frustrated with our service, and there's a huge rise of upstarts nipping at our heals… I'm sure no one will follow them and leave our service.”

Well one thing is for sure, myspace will never over take friend.. err, can't even remember what that site was called!

I'm thinking frank zappa must have been onto something when he suggested that stupidity is a more common element in the universe then hydrogen.

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July 22, 2008

Noah David Simon

twitter is hell

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July 22, 2008

Matt Searles

Wow.. one wonder's who's making the decisions over there.. can you imagine the meeting where this decision took place?: “yeah, lets take the folks with the most followers, and there for perhaps the most influence, and push them away from our site.. at a time when everyone in the world is getting frustrated with our service, and there's a huge rise of upstarts nipping at our heals… I'm sure no one will follow them and leave our service.”

Well one thing is for sure, myspace will never over take friend.. err, can't even remember what that site was called!

I'm thinking frank zappa must have been onto something when he suggested that stupidity is a more common element in the universe then hydrogen.

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July 22, 2008

GeekMommy

You are kidding?
So if I had mass-followed people 3 days ago, my limit would be maybe 3-4k but now, despite my always having maintained a 1-to-1 ratio and been a strong Twitter supporter, I have to CHOOSE between followers?
That's outrageous.
And if it's true – it will only serve to hurt Twitter – because I have no reason to use a service that won't let me interact with people w/o telling them that some of them aren't “as important” as others.

I'm not a big plurk fan tho.
I'll either be on identi.ca or given my preference Kwippy.com – which has given me unlimited invites and let's me thread comments.

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July 22, 2008

simonstudio

twitter is hell

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July 23, 2008

Matt Searles

Wow.. one wonder's who's making the decisions over there.. can you imagine the meeting where this decision took place?: “yeah, lets take the folks with the most followers, and there for perhaps the most influence, and push them away from our site.. at a time when everyone in the world is getting frustrated with our service, and there's a huge rise of upstarts nipping at our heals… I'm sure no one will follow them and leave our service.”

Well one thing is for sure, myspace will never over take friend.. err, can't even remember what that site was called!

I'm thinking frank zappa must have been onto something when he suggested that stupidity is a more common element in the universe then hydrogen.

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July 23, 2008

Noah David Simon

twitter is hell

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July 7, 2009

Jasmine

WHat is it with Twitter limit and why should there be any limit??

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July 7, 2009

Jasmine

WHat is it with Twitter limit and why should there be any limit??

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July 7, 2009

Jasmine

WHat is it with Twitter limit and why should there be any limit??

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