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How are some users able to follow 50,000 people per day?

by Sirr
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As the question asks, how are some people able to follow so many people in one day?

Here is an example: PHILLY CHASE Twitter Stats - Twitter Counter

Between 12th and 13th of Feb, he followed 63,000 people. So in one day he was able to follow that many people. I watched the video on YouTube about the guy who managed his account (he may be a member here). You can check the reports on that site to see the statistics.

If I follow over 200 people I get suspended. A friend has an aged account and he was able to follow 2,000 before he hit the following limit.

I've tried manually, I've created software with their API and I'm still hitting the suspended bans and blocks.

I'm just interested to know how this is possible.

Could it have something to do with trust and slowly having the limits removed from Twitter?
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  • Profile picture of the author M Thompson
    They use scraping tools... they hope that most have automated follow backs in place
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    • Profile picture of the author Sirr
      Originally Posted by M Thompson View Post

      They use scraping tools... they hope that most have automated follow backs in place
      I'm not talking about the followers. I am talking about the following. Twitter has limits in place to stop you following over 2,000 people a day but it seems this guy clearly had no issue following 60,000.

      Also, they are not scraping, they are using the Streaming API which is a realtime API that acts like a Firehose spitting out realtime tweets. That's how they get their ID's.

      I'm aware of the method, and I've even created software to do this, the problem is the following limits.

      In Philly Chase's example the following worked, because he now has over 1 million followers.
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      • Profile picture of the author M Thompson
        Aren't the limits flexible and related to ratio's? So for example if i create and account today and buy 10,000 followers then I can go above the 2,000 limit
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  • Profile picture of the author johnnyfd
    I have an aged account on twitter.com/johhnyfdk but haven't been active on it until recently. I followed 650 in one day and twitter slapped me and suspended me for adding any more users for almost 48 hours. I just checked it and I'm able to add people again. But it was a combination of adding too many at once and having a bad ratio between following and followers.
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    It must be all automated for shore!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Monja
    the question is in the end what the followers are worth, or? if they don't know you they might never "answer" - wether with a click nor a reply or retweet
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