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Why does Twitter Suck?

Posted by septagonstudios • 11/05/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: media, Networking, social, twitter

So I've been an avid Twitter user under the account of twitter.com/septagonstudios

Great social networking tool. It has helped bring in alot of traffic.

However due to problems with server issues in the past, and api requests and following limits. I'm not able to add any more followers to my list.

I've tried removing some to add others, rotation process, didn't work. I submitted a support ticket still no answer.

This is the error message I get which doesn't make sense if you look at the actual problems, where I don't request any API, I don't tweet more then 50 times a day.

This is the error message has anyone else had this problem.

You are unable to follow more people. Please read about our following limits.

User Comments

11/05/08

PetLvr

Following 30,357
Followers 4,752
Updates 159

Something is horribly wrong with this picture and the way you are using twitter. If you can't see that - Well, I can't imagine how anybody can NOT see that..

I had problems after I reached 2000 followings .. with only 900 or so following me - I just gave in and deleted everybody who is not following me.

I suggest you check out itweet.net and watch how the API request and following limits tick down for you.

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11/05/08

septagonstudios

So what does the actual API requests mean? It says I have 72 out of 100 hits remaining

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1. 11/05/08
  
  PetLvr
  
  There are millions (billions?) of twitter users ... everytime you follow people and receive their tweets, it comes from their server. They limit the number of requests per hour per user so the server stays stable and everybody can benefit from the service. Remember about 6 months ago? Twitter server was overtaxed and down every couple of days.. It's been pretty good recently!
2. 11/05/08
  
  PetLvr
  
  And - when the API requests .. that's why you have to wait until the next cycle before you can receive more tweets. And, since you are following more than 30,000 ... the chances are very likely that one tweet from a very small percentage - uses up your request limit.
11/05/08

septagonstudios

So by removing my followers will this help my situation? If so can I find a Twitter tool that does before I go insane in removing 30 thousand odd friends.

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1. 11/05/08
  
  PetLvr
  
  When I was removing those 1300 from my account - it was easier to just click the FOLLOWING link and scroll down the page and unfollow everybody that I couldn't send a direct message too ... took me about an hour to do ... 30,000 is a lot .. probably take a lot longer - but, an hour a day maybe?
  
  Also - don't forget the followers too - when I was cleaning up - I found there were about 100 new people I didn't know they were following me, because it kept me at 2000 following limit. About 75 of those tho, turned out to be spammers and although following me - I was unable to follow them so, I removed them from my followers list too.
11/05/08

dosox

I dnt have any problem..
17 followers, followin 18 or 19, 350 plus updates..

i luff twitter.

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