What does one do to let twitter know that there is a reason for following over 2000 people?

I can not follow any more people on twitter. It is possible because you see plenty of people with over 2000 they are following. In one of the games here it says to follow the people in the game on top of tweeting their items. People will not want to participate with me if I can not participate.
Thank you
Shannon

asked over 9 years ago

3 Answers

Twitter has follow limits once you reach 2000. You need to get more followers, before you can follow new users or you can delete old ones that are no longer active and particularly bot followers. The average active life of a follower is one year to 18 months so you can delete ones who are no longer active as well. It is not about how many you have, rather if they are real people who use twitter.
Follow rules can be found here.
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answered over 9 years ago

Go through and weed out those that are not actually ‘real’ or are not tweeting things you are interested…and go back to your oldest and see if any are actually following you back and decide whether you wish to continue following them.

I try to keep my ratio, below 1.5 to 1…in other words try not to get more that 1.5 people followed to 1 person following me…and I go through an ‘clean up’ about once a month…

answered over 9 years ago

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I love using [URL removed] (easy and simple 4 a Twitter newbie like me) to make the process of weeding inactive and non-followers, but there are many other aps that do the same.

answered over 9 years ago

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