Can Long Distance Relationships Really Work?

By: Nancy Bigley

Bottle & Bottega (est. 2010) is a unique business with a unique business model. I live in California, while Stephanie King-Myers...Read More

Choosing to Thrive

By: Julie Starr

Unfortunately these scenarios can describe many people in today's society. Too many hours at the office, double duties as homemaker/parent and the pace of life in general...Read More

How Female Leaders Should Handle Double-Standards

By: Herminia Ibarra

MF head Christine Lagarde tells a story about a woman leader she met who took over at a tough moment in her country's history and resolved to...Read More

5 Ways to Maximize Impact of Offline Marketing

By: Nicola Cook

Everyone knows I'm a HUGE fan of all things digital and since the social revolution I strongly advise businesses to ensure that they have...Read More

YOLO

By: Lora Rossi

I remember seeing this a few years back. I think it was the tattoo of some celebrity or something...I can't remember. For those of you who don't know what is means...Read More

You've Got 8 Seconds!

By: Dr. Marina Kostina

Being different is no longer a recreational pursuit for small business owners; it is a matter of survival for your company. In a world of 8 second attention spans, you must...Read More

ONLINE LEARNING

The 9 Biggest Sales Mistakes

The 9 Biggest Sales Mistakes identifies those key mistakes that are stopping sales teams, companies and business owners fulfilling their sales potential. The report establishes how to identify these errors, indicates how they can be eliminated - and sets out how to avoid them. View More

ASK OUR EXPERT

I started my twitter account a while back and someone told me that one way to get followers is to follow people that are relevant to my business so they would follow me back. This worked ok but I got a notice from Twitter saying I can’t follow anyone else because I’ve reached my 2000 limit?! What does this mean?

Twitter does have certain rules (you can read their following policy here) but basically Twitter has a following limit of 2000 people based on the number of followers you have. This means that once you hit 2000 followers you need to have at least 10% following you in order to follow more users. Twitter is getting much stricter on aggressive following (i.e. Bulk following/spamming). The limit works on a percentage level (around 10%) but only starts once you are following 2000 people. When you reach this limit Twitter won’t allow you to follow any more people until your followers increase by 10%.

There are many ways to increase your following on Twitter but it should be noted that it takes substantial time, effort and commitment to build up a list of avid followers. It’s also more valuable to build up a list of loyal followers that are genuinely interested in your niche a...Read More

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