You mean YOU followed 1980 people or THEY followed you? IF they followed you then it must be a record! Dana will be around shortly and can give you an answer...after all she IS the Twitter QUEEN...all knowing and seeing!

chuck

1980 follows in one day... I wish! I followed 1980 people in one day! My conversions were excellent! Pretty pissed off about this!!!

Wait man... did you follow 1980 people or did 1980 people started following you?

If you followed (added) all those people within 1 day... obviously it triggers twitter to look at your account under spam!!!

I added 1980 people in 1 day. I thought it would be fine

Tyrone

In Twitter's eyes that is spamming. It's just not normal behaviour to follow 1980 people in one day. Twitter has been refining its system to detect this kind of behaviour.

Really, if you want to build up a following on Twitter, do it reasonably - a small number of new follows every day.

I followed 2000 people on my first day. I know tons of people who have done the same. Twitter allows you to follow up to 2000 people and then they won't let you follow any more.

Not only that but at the end of a week I unfollowed the 1700 or so people who were not following me back - and I went and followed 1700 or 1800 different people. I never got in trouble.

One other person, who I won't name, sent me an email saying that their account was suspended. They sent an email to Twitter to ask why. It turned out that 24 people had complained that this person was sending out a Tweet with a link to their sales page, again and again. The same tweet, with just a link to a sales page, several times a day.

I specifically advise NOT to do that kind of thing in my ebook. What I do recommend is talking about your work, what you are doing, etc., but don't send out the exact same Tweet repeatedly and certainly not linking to a sales page.

I should clarify one thing I just said - once you get 2000 people following YOU, you can follow more than 2000 people. Twitter does not say exactly how many.

Guys I think I know what happened. My settings were on "all @ replies" instead of "@ replies to the people I'm following". That must of raised a red flag. I will keep you guys posted as to what twitter says about this

Tyrone

I may be wrong, but I find it hard to believe that Twitter would ban someone who followed 2000 people in one day ONLY for that reason. I mean, they ALLOW you to follow up to 2000 people. If they think that following 2000 people in one day means that you are spamming people, then they would just set the limit lower.

As I mentioned above, I've now heard from two people who said they were suspended by Twitter - but one of them has heard back from Twitter who said they were reported by 24 people for sending out multiple affiliate links. That's a lot of complaints.

I don't know if Tyrone accidentally did something that people on Twitter would perceive as spamming, but I hope he hears back from them quickly.

Hey guys still no word from twitter...

That's odd, the other person who DMed me when their account was suspended told me that they heard back within a couple of days. I know it's a pain, but you might want to message them again.

I still have not heard anything to suggest that ONLY following a whole bunch of people in one day there would get you suspended. The other person who told me that their account was suspended also had 24 people complain that they repeatedly sent out a link to a sales page.

I tend to agree with Kevin Riley and have been following people at a slower rate. Besides, hitting the follow button 2000 times in one day is a lot of work. I am usually on Twitter most days. When I see an interesting post I check out that person and start following some of their crowd. I am rapidly building up a following, just not quite as fast as some say I can.