Last Tuesday, one of our esteemed moderators (@azrork) finished up the chat from Twitter Jail. What is Twitter Jail? It's when Twitter cuts you off, and you're not allowed to tweet for a period of time.
Twitter has limits on various account activities. These include:
- number of tweets an account is allowed to send per day (1000)
- number of daily direct messages (250)
- how many accounts that can be followed in one day (1000)
- number of tweets (including retweets) that are allowed in "semi-hourly intervals" (the exact number is not officially stated by Twitter, but rumored to be around 100 per hour)
For most of us, this doesn't pose a problem. I would have a difficult time sending 1000 tweets in a day, and I can assure you that most of my followers (including my children) would unfollow me if I did.
But, if you're moderating a tweetchat, responding to tweets, and retweeting the conversation, you can easily hit the 100 tweets per hour ceiling, and when that happens, you'll get a message something like this:
Sigh.
And you might feel something like this:
But, never fear. Twitter Jail only lasts for 30 minutes up to several hours.
What to do if you're put into Twitter Jail? Do what our brilliant #chsocm moderator did: plan ahead and have a separate twitter account from which to tweet when you're in jail. Or switch to another platform if you still have more to say (Facebook, Tumblr, etc.). Or just use your virtual imprisonment as a suggestion to step away from your device and go fold a load of laundry or something.
Either way, you'll be back to the tweet life soon.
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