Twitter – Know Your Limits
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at
3:04 pm
Twitter enforces various limitations on the things you can do within the social network. This includes the amount of characters you’re allowed in a tweet, the length of your userrname, and how many people you’re able to follow before somebody on the other end goes, “Whoa.”
Some of these limits are well known; others, less so. I thought it would be fun to group them all together via the power of the infographic, which I’d like to share with you below.
(This is my very first infographic, so be kind. If you’re curious about what some of these statements mean, read the official word from Twitter here and here.)
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Very nice infographic! Didn't realize you'd made it yourself. Well-done!
My only question: you say 2,000 is the maximum number of followers any account can have. Should that that be “followers” or “followees” (i.e., people followed by the account)? I don't think “followees” is an official term. But there must be something to distinguish “people you follow” from “people who follow you” (which I assume is unlimited in number). “Friends” usually means “people who you follow who follow you back.” So “followees” seems the only way to describe “people you follow.”
Oops, yeah, that was a typo. Fixed now. Cheers.
Much appreciated Rob – thank you!
Ah! Yes, much better. And I like the way you did it MUCH better than the obscure “followee” term I was suggesting. Your way is much clearer!
So, with the change, I give this an “A.”
One correction – the API calls per hour figure goes to 350 if you're using oAuth, which you should be. “Eventually” it will be 1500 calls per hour.
On a related note, Twitter is working very hard to make sure the removal of basic authentication in favor of oAuth goes as smoothly as possible. And they're *still* getting pushback from a vocal minority of developers. The latest issue raised is whether or not Chinese users will be able to access Twitter after basic authentication is shut down. So … stay tuned.
James is my official name, but I hate it so I tend to sign as Rob when just using one name. I couldn't register on Twitter as Rob because it had already gone (no surprise there) and didn't want a weird numbers / letters name hence why I use my full name instead.
This is nice! Still playing around with twitter myself so this is really helpful.
Didn't know half of the things you talked about like those limits and stuff! Don't think I'm gonna reach them anytime soon though, lol…
very helpful info and just what i was looking for, put in a way that even moles can see it
cheers!