How Many Twitter Followers in One Day?

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I am somewhat new to Twitter. Is there a rough number of people you can follow after opening your acct/per day?
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  • Profile picture of the author Usmile
    Originally Posted by Marhelper View Post

    I am somewhat new to Twitter. Is there a rough number of people you can follow after opening your acct/per day?
    In twitter, you can follow people not more than 1,000 per day, but since you are new I suggest you to follow people less 200 per day.
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  • Profile picture of the author BRAlN
    Direct Messages: 250 per day.

    Updates: 1,000 per day.

    Changes to Account Email: 4 per hour.

    Following (daily): Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior. You can find detailed page describing following limits and prohibited behavior on the Follow Limits and Best Practices Page. The technical follow limit is 1,000 per day.

    Following (account-based): Once an account is following 2,000 other users, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios. The Follow Limits and Best Practices Page has more information.
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    • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
      Originally Posted by BRAlN View Post


      Following (account-based): Once an account is following 2,000 other users, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios. The Follow Limits and Best Practices Page has more information.
      Not following: What kind of limits?
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    • Profile picture of the author regenesis
      Originally Posted by BRAlN View Post

      Direct Messages: 250 per day.

      Updates: 1,000 per day.

      Changes to Account Email: 4 per hour.

      Following (daily): Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior. You can find detailed page describing following limits and prohibited behavior on the Follow Limits and Best Practices Page. The technical follow limit is 1,000 per day.

      Following (account-based): Once an account is following 2,000 other users, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios. The Follow Limits and Best Practices Page has more information.
      Hey, thanks for sharing the information.
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  • Profile picture of the author BRAlN
    I don't understand your question please come again.
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  • Profile picture of the author AllanWard
    It's different for the first 2,000 friends you have. Once you exceed that, a safe ratio to have is to never have 10% more friends than followers. So, if you have 10,000 followers, it's safe to have 11,000 friends. Probably adding 1,000 friends per day is a bit aggressive, especially in the early days. The higher the number of followers you have, the higher the number of people you can follow in a day.
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    • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
      Originally Posted by AllanWard View Post

      It's different for the first 2,000 friends you have. Once you exceed that, a safe ratio to have is to never have 10% more friends than followers. So, if you have 10,000 followers, it's safe to have 11,000 friends. Probably adding 1,000 friends per day is a bit aggressive, especially in the early days. The higher the number of followers you have, the higher the number of people you can follow in a day.
      Wow ... only 10%. I was hoping 50% would be OK. IE: I follow 5000 and am followed by 2500.
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      • Profile picture of the author AllanWard
        You can try it, and may get away with it initially, but I don't think that level of activity is sustainable. By all means test it on an account you don't value and see what happens.

        Some people will do an aggressive un-friending, where they un-friend anyone who doesn't follow back within 24 hours. This is one way to keep the ratio down, although I'm not sure it looks very natural to Twitter.
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  • Profile picture of the author marketwarrior06
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    isn't it too much to follow more than a 100 a day?
    don't get too fast in case of social media marketing. remember they can hurt you at any time ;P
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    • Profile picture of the author AllanWard
      Originally Posted by marketwarrior06 View Post

      isn't it too much to follow more than a 100 a day?
      don't get too fast in case of social media marketing.
      I prefer to think in terms of percentages rather than numbers when it comes to Twitter.
      If you've only got 100 friends and then befriend another 100, that's a big increase. If you've got 100,000 friends and follow another 100, that's a very small percentage increase.

      I've come to accept that different people have different opinions on how they use social media. For some, an aggressive follow / unfollow strategy is what they're comfortable with, others prefer a high touch / low level of friends and followers approach.

      Find what works for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    Twitter SAYS you can follow 800 people per day with a new account, but you really cant.

    In my experience, anytime you follow more than 350-400 people per day with 1 account, they will suspend you for "aggressive following"

    ALSO - Once you are following 2000 people, you will NOT be able to follow anybody else until 2000 people are following YOU. Once you get 2000 followers, these limits will increase. But until then, you will need to unfollow people. That way you can keep following new people.

    Whatever you do, whether it be following, unfollowing, sending tweets or whatever, you want to make sure that a human could do the same tasks, in the same amount of time. I dont know if you're using a program to manage it or not, but if you are, just keep things realistic.

    For example, when a typical twitter user decides to follow someone, they will usually check out their profile, read a few of their tweets, and then decide if they want to follow them. The whole process can take anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes - But its NOT instant.

    However its different for unfollowing - When someone decides they want to unfollow you, they click your profile, and click unfollow. Takes a whole 10-20 seconds. lol so you can obviously speed the unfollowing up.

    So if you're using a tool, just keep that in mind. Your accounts should mimic a real twitter user.

    It can take weeks to get an account back, and thats IF you get it back at all. So you dont want to push your luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author zoomsixx
    I would take it easy (200 per day) at first till you get to 6,000 or so followers. That seems to be the safe spot. From my experience at least.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyke
    The reason for the 10% limit is to prevent spammers overrunning the platform. So, if you get 500 followers in one day, you can follow up to 50 - that's once you're following 2,000 users.

    If you follow 1,000 people a day, that would probably be regarded as too aggressive and potentially get you banned.

    I'd say following up to a hundred new people a day would be a safe number. Just make sure you get people following you back, especially as you approach the magic 2K number.
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  • Profile picture of the author djchez
    its 1k per day, better start with lower numbers like 200 -300 /day
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  • Profile picture of the author ephame
    Once you have passed a bit of time in twitter they become a little less touchy but the majority of what has been said above is true. If you are using software don't set it too high you will get banned.

    Be happy with a few hundred followers the first week and start producing good,consistent, shareable content and you will barely need to follow at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author melleni
    I never follow more than 300 per day
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  • Profile picture of the author Avy Smith
    Keep it below 500 and in return some would certainly follow you. Keep tweeting your updates.
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  • Profile picture of the author Eplexx
    I never knew there was a limit, glad to know now and hopefully my account doesn't get banned.
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  • Profile picture of the author surferchris
    Try keeping at less than 200 adds a day. Twitter is recently stricter in monitoring people's activity in twitter. They might think you are just a spammer if you just keep on adding people.
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