There Is A Biological Limit To How Many Friends You Can Have On Twitter [Study]

Think the more followers you accumulate, the more people you’re engaging with on Twitter? Think again. A new study has been released that suggests that there is a biological limit to how many friends you can have on social networks, and it’s probably not as high as you think.

In a new study [PDF], researchers from Indiana University analysed a over 380 million tweets from a 4 year time period, which translated to about 25 million distinct conversations.

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