Yes, there are limits when comes to certain things on twitter.  We all know about the 140 word limit on posts.  At first I really hated that, but now, I really like it.

I like how brief and to the point people have to be with their tweets.  I don’t know about you, but I’m on quite a few make money online mailing lists and I hate reading long e-mails. 

It is a pet peeve of mine and I simply won’t do it.  Whenever I did take the time to read them, I was usually let down.  I’m not a very patient person.  I want people to get to the point.  I really value my time and I don’t want to waste a bunch of it reading something that I won’t learn from or being pitched something that I don’t need.

Again, these big long sales pages.  I don’t think that I’ve ever read one start to finish, unless it was my own and I don’t let them drag out too long.  With twitter you get the straight to the point information.

I don’t have to read more than a really short post at a time and if I want to click on the link and check it out further, I can.  This can also be effective when you make tweets.

Get right to the point and give them the link.  Give them some intrigue to help get your link clicked on.   People are curious, they love to get their questions answered.

There are other twitter limits.  With Facebook, one of the most annoying limits is how many friends you can have.  The limit is 5,000.  I’ve been at this limit for I don’t know how long now and I’ve had to turn down so many friends requests, because of this limit.

With twitter, I don’t know of any limit on the amount of friends that you can have.  There are people with tens of thousands of friends, if not a lot more.  There are other limits in place.

There are 1,000 total updates a day, 1,000 direct messages per day and 100 API requests per hour.  You would have to be a really busy beaver to top those limits.

Twitter doesn’t really explain how many people you can follow in a given time.  They say that you can’t follow a few amount of people and get followed by thousands, but I don’t really know.  They say that it varies, just don’t go too nuts.