There is no limit to the number of unfollows. Using software to constantly churn followers in a repeated pattern of following and unfollowing will however risk suspension.
Thanks, Doug On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jesse Stay <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it true that there is now a rate limit on number of unfollows per day? > One of my users said that your support rep is telling them they risk > suspension if they go over 500 unfollows a day. Might be worth an > announcement if that is the case so we can share that with our users... > > If I can suggest against this, or perhaps another solution (or an exception > for certain cases), one of the services I offer is the ability to remove all > of your friends at once. This is something Loic Lemeur and others have > done, and I think some times some people just want to start over. With a > 500/day limit it may be near impossible for some people to remove all their > friends at once. > > A better solution to kill spam, as I mentioned before, is to remove the > follow limits and ratios on people that are already following an individual > before that individual follows them, and increase the limits (I think 200 > per day would be fine) for people trying to follow those that aren't already > following them. I would leave out the unfollow limits due to the reasons > specified, and they would be unnecessary with the limit rules I mentioned. > > Jesse >
