Twitter limiting followers to 2000
Monday, August 11, 2008 by Dave Winer.
Just read in various places that people are getting messages from Twitter saying that there's a limit of 2000 followers per account. 
Lots to say about this of course!
1. My first take: Probably a good idea.
2. Is this a problem for people?
3. Confirmation that the expensive thing in Twitter is distributing status messages to large numbers of queues.
4. A business model appears? If you want more than 2000 followers, that'll cost you $X per year per thousand?
5. If no business model then here's something you can't use Twitter for. I had the idea that it would make a good medium for delivering hot news bulletins, and have set up a few channels for doing that. But if they can't grow beyond 2000 followers, there's not much point investing.
6. Or is it a method of keeping malicious or annoying Twitterers in check?
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