Twitter’s 5K Follow Barrier
What is it, what does it imply, and how do you break the logjam?
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3 min readFeb 7, 2022
What is Twitter’s 5K Barrier?
New users on Twitter are generally anxious to get conversations fired up and tweeps following them. In their enthusiasm, they may follow other users at a furious pace. It’s not uncommon to see users following 4000 people or more when only a few hundred follow them. Rightly or…