OK, this is little bit a cry for help. I need your help to get some attention from Twitter. Why?
I am at the following limit of 2,000 people. Why am I at the following limit, I love to follow interesting people.

At this moment I am blocked at 2,000 following because that is the rule as explained here by Twitter.

We do not limit the number of people who can follow you, but we have put limits in place to stop people from aggressively following others. Everyone is allowed to follow 2000 people. After that, follow limits are based on the number of people who are following you.

Of course I can change this by dropping a lot of people that I follow. However I do not want to do that. For me, it is more about who I am following than who is following me. The people that I follow on twitter give me interesting information, links, tips…. When they want to follow me back that is really nice, because than we can have a conversation, I like that too.

Some people that I follow are very popular and receive lots of followers. However they do not want to follow back all these requests. I see a number of people that have a couple of 1,000 followers and only follow a few 100 themselves. These are not people that I want to stop following!

I always check the people that start following me. Are they people, are there conversations in their timeline or is it just links from their site/blog. Is their profile complete, name, bio, URL to site. If it looks like a spammer I always block the profile. If it is like a news twitter, just sending links from their site, I useally do not follow back (I use a RSS reader for that).

My follow rules are similar as explained in these 10 points: FOLLOW FAIL: The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter

So because I continuously look for interesting people on twitter my following grew to 2,000. On the other hand my followers are close to 1,700 followers. So there is a gap between my following and followers.

Last week I was at CES in Las Vegas. During this week I met a lot of nice people. Some of these people are already on my following list, but most of them are not. They started following me. I really would like to follow them too. It is probably going to take me another 2 months or so before I will be able to follow them back.

So if you have added me recently, I will follow you back once I have 2,000 followers and I can leap over the 2,000 following barrier.

Maybe twitter can do something about it, but the site already says: “Please note: Support cannot remove follow limits.”

Well, maybe you can help me to eliminate the Twitter following limit for me. You would be doing me a great favor.

Tags:followers, following, limit, twitter

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