Evsion Lab

Aug 15

Revisiting the Twitter 2000 (video)

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Sean and I today got fail-whale to chatting about the limits enacted by Pownce and Twitter recently that limits the number of folks you can follow on the system to around 2,000 or so. As I tried to explore when I reported the news a couple of days ago, Sean and I attempted to drill down and try to come up with some legitimate reasons to need the ability to follow more than 2,000 folks and came up pretty blank.

What we did discuss were some new updates we’d received regarding those that operate the Twitter auto-follow bots on the network, and based on their testing, even after the supposed follow limits have been implemented, it appears that the bot is still able to game the system and follow folks in numbers that far exceed 2,000.

It caused us to wonder exactly to what benefit the limitations are actually intended, or if these accounts were simply being grandfathered in. To catch the whole discussion (and an interview with “Party Charlie“), watch the video via the embed below, or download the MP4 here.

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