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    Hello Friends,

    If you reading this Blog, you must have twitter account at least one.

     

    Always post some meaningful and interesting content to get more and followers. Also Twitter account is not a competition to make large number of followers but find some real user who can read and share your quality content and also brought some meaningful traffic to your website.

    Twitter Rate Limit:

    In order to control the use of the Twitter API (the service which provides the twitter data for 3rd party Twitter applications such as TweetDeck) Twitter sets a limit on how many times it can be used in an hour.

    Source: Twitter Rate Limits

    Twitter many times Updates their Rate limits in the recent past years. A person working In Social Media World probably know about the tools like Buffer, Hootsuite and mobile twitter app like TweetDeck these apps uses their twitter api to execute their task like scheduled post, Retweet them and Favorite other post.

    The main reason behind these the limits is twitter wants to minimize their downtime and reduced number of error pages.

    What are the Present Limit of Twitter:

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    Rate Limit

    Description

    1

    DM(Direct messages/Day:)

    1,000 DM sent daily

    2

    No of Tweets

    2,400 daily

    *Note: The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as Tweets.

    3

    Account email Updates

    4 per hour

     

    Following/ Day

    1,000 Daily.

    * Note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior.

    4

    Account Based Following

    Once your  account is following 5, 000 users, An additional follow attempts limited by some account specific ratio.

    5

    Tweet character count

    140 character / Tweet

    6

    username character count limit

    15 Characters

    7

    Twitter Bio limits

    Below 160 Character

    8

    Image Size in MB

    Maximum 5Mb

    9

    Header photo

    1500x500 pixels Recommended

    10

    Profile photo

    500X400 Pixel

    11

    Image Formats

    JPG, GIF, or PNG.

    12

    Maximum video Size

    15 M

     

    Source: https://support.twitter.com/articles/15364

    Hope you enjoy this blog post twitter Limits.

     

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