Twitter doesn’t want you to follow everyone, no matter how important the service is to the betterment of human kind.  And it has nothing to do with up-time.  They are protecting you from the bad people.

According to “Ginger,” (the person the post is credited to) on Twitter’s forum relating to what they term as best practices, you have to adhere to basic rules of decency…I mean guidelines.  Basically, they don’t want you to become annoying to legitimate users of the system and run everyone off, lest Google be serious about buying them (was that out loud)?   Read more…