Ragtag Giggagon

Here is a list of Social Media Don'ts for your business! DON'T Link your Twitter and Facebook feeds so that posts and tweets go out on both platforms. Don't do this because Posts and Tweets are different beasts ~My Gran You think you're saving time? WRONG! Facebook fans and Twitter followers have different expectations of each platform. Facebook fans expect the following: -sonograms -two hour interviews with deceased philosopher Jack Derridoo, occult separatist hermeneut phonhmonologist Earwig Eggnog, deceased Bush apologist and wheelchair astrologer Sir Kisstopher Hawtchings, the late Viking crime novelist Herring Mackerel, the dead scientolofficer-general Mr Carl Sagan, and the fictional World War 3 starter Khan Noonien Singh, and a panel discussion with four of the two of them afterwards - with the transcripts provided beneath. -vacation snaps of their friends in bikinis IS THIS TOO BIG??? Twitter followers expect the following - of you - to entail the following: - B...

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...