A funny story about Twitter and time-outs. A long time ago, back when the fail whale used to show up on Twitter on the daily. Back when I was much younger and not so wise in the ways of the internet. I tried the mass follow/unfollow approach to gaining followers. I found out about plenty of their limits at the time this way. Long story short, I got a 72 hour block from Twitter. Which at the time was the best thing that could ever happen. Because at the time when they locked you out, they dropped all of the accounts you were following. When they reinstated it they would send a notification that you had followed all those accounts again. I gained over 2,000 followers in 48 hours. It was great at the time, but unfortunately I doubt it works this way now.