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This video shows a successful technique in action! Twitter won't allow users to follow more than 2,000 people if you don't have enough people following you back. As this technique illustrates, you can follow as many as you can, then purge them later (I started capturing this when he was 2,000 people BELOW his last reported number on Twitterholic)
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brianshaler (0:02)
10 months ago 0 + -This video is in real-time!
brianshaler (0:15)
10 months ago 0 + -Refreshing the page, the # keeps going UP!
brianshaler (1:00)
10 months ago 0 + -avg. 2.15 follows PER SECOND (this is 1m in, 132 new friends)
brianshaler (6:19)
10 months ago 0 + -CSS failed to load on this refresh. Happens a few times
brianshaler (14:32)
10 months ago 0 + -Almost ALL of the last 2 pages of tweets are from twitterfeed. Sources: foxnews, phoenixnews, yahoo group for recipies, and blog of the day awards
brianshaler (17:40)
10 months ago 0 + -Within 12 hours, he unfollows over 1,000. Including me, because I wasn't following him back
brianshaler (16:34)
10 months ago 0 + -2,066 follows in 16.5 minutes. 125.2 new follows per minute. Over 2 per second! He was below 19,000 when I first saw it. This is only counting what's documented
chris
10 months ago 0 + -How is it that Twitter doesn't ban him? That's crazy.
since76
10 months ago 0 + -I wonder if there is a way to publicly see someone's follow statistics/patterns? The reason I say this is because there is no way to know if someone has just followed you as a part of a following blitzkrieg (like the one shown above). I'm thinking a site similar to TweetEffect would be useful, except instead of a graph that shows how many people have followed/unfollowed you, there would be a graph that shows you how many people someone has followed and unfollowed.
itmonkie
9 months ago 0 + -I met this guy at the social media breakfast thing a few weeks back. He seemed very much like a guy who didn't get it. Now it comes out that he's a spammer. Figures. I followed him since I met him in real life, but then the frequency and quality of his tweets turned me off and I unfollowed him. He of course eventually unfollowed me back.