Important Twitter Limitations You May Not Be Aware Of

Recently, Twitter has announced that it's planning to increase the number of characters from 140 to 10,000. This is something that has caused users to complain because they feel that this new limit is going to make Twitter lose its identity. For better of for worse, the 140 character limitation is the only limit the social network has. Below are some Twitter limitations you may not know existed.

Usernames can only be 15 characters long
Usernames on Twitter can have a maximum of 15 characters, and that does not include the @ symbol. You can naturally add letters, numbers, and underscores. You could even create a username with a single character if there were any available.

Send a maximum of 1,000 messages a day
Since Twitter allowed users to send direct message to anyone, it provided a limit of 1,000 message for its users to avoid spam.

You can't tweet more than 2,400 times a day
A lot of people spend a lot of time on Twitter, but it's actually hard to believe that someone would send tweet more than 2,400 times a day. To pull that off, you would have to send 100 tweets an hour without sleeping. This is Twitter's another way to avoid spam.

You can't follow more that 2,000 users without limits
This one might just be interesting on of them all. This is probably the only limit of Twitter that you may possibly run into. Once you follow 2,000 users, you can only have 10% more followers than the people you follow. In other words, if you want to follow more than 2,000 people, you have more than 1,800 followers. When you reach a limit, Twitter will let you know with an error message telling you that.

Twitter won't allow to create more than 1,000 lists
Lists are very useful tool when you want to get information about a certain something of read tweets from a particular circle of people because you don't have enough time to read the entire timeline. However, it is difficult to believe that someone would have 1,00 lists (or even 50 for that matter). This seems like a method to avoid getting too much attention from other users by using dirty tactics.

Every account can only follow 5,000 users total
If you have somehow manage to follow 5,000 users, you will face limits as to the number of new users you can follow. Every Twitter account is open to limits, even API and high profile accounts. Twitter will not allow you to follow more than 1,000 accounts per day, and the social network says it's a technical limit to prevent flagrant abuse from spam accounts.

Even though Twitter says you can't follow more than 5,000 accounts, there is a way to work around that. You will need to wait until your have more followers before you can follow anyone else.