A Bunch of Twits and Evolutionary Game Theory
This is an unnecessary, petty and frivolous post. I shared this advice with someone who had built up a following before jettisoning most of those following him so that his follower numbers were a factor of many times higher than those he follows. There is a (roughly) 5000 follower limit on Twitter unless there's a balance in numbers between those who follow you, and those you follow. At the original time of writing, it was 2000 but it's subject to change and the whims of the Twitter folk. If you have more followers than accounts you follow, you can follow more people. But if you have, say, 4850 followers, and you try to follow more than 5000, Twitter will warn you that you can't follow any more accounts. There are sometimes similar limits thereafter, at say, 10000 or whatever. Perhaps Twitter arbitrarily assigns these limits at intervals to keep people on their toesies, as is their wont. Many of the accounts I follow are owned by genuine people or businesses I've eng...