Recently, we’ve been experimenting with Twitter to increase our visibility and our communication within the art world as an art advisory, art consultancy, design studio, and artist rep.  Amazingly, since starting Twitter, our site hits have more than doubled in less than five days. Frustratingly though, we’ve also hit Twitter follow limits and recently launched a revolutionary petition campaign called LIFT FOLLOW LIMITS NOW.  

Follow limits infringe upon one’s free speech, free market and free trade possibilities. Additionally, despite the added insult of the misleading advertisement of Twitter as a freely accessible communication exchange device, there’s the added insult that the limits are arbitrarily imposed — which in our mind (after watching Oscar winner Sean Penn’s Harvey Milk performance last night on DVD) equates to a very scary new kind of discrimination among account holders. LIFT FOLLOW LIMITS NOW needs all Twitterers to join us today. 

While Twitter has enabled us to reach groups and members we might not have previously and regularly dealt with (Tate Gallery in London or Art Basel in Switzerland) we never imagined it would bring via Air Mail and the U.S. Postal Office  a letter from Sailkot Pakistan from the Hand Work Company advertising embroidered badges, military braids and shoulder boards among other uniform accessories.  Well, Mohd Ramzan Skeikh, it’s great to meet you by paper.  If Twitter LIFTs FOLLOW LIMITS NOW maybe I and all the rest of the Twitter community can twit you every now and then.