It seems like most instragram users have over 100 followers[1], if they're all active and connected that means a sizable chunk of likes (or whatever else you ca

It seems like most instragram users have over 100 followers[1], if they're all active and connected that means a sizable chunk of likes (or whatever else you can do) when you post something. Surely sending all these notifications isn't entirely free - someone else posted Snowden receiving 47 gigs of mail because of email notifications. You could do something like send notifications with some sort of back-off. Send them for 10 seconds, then back off to a minute's worth chunk, then 10 minutes, then an hour. Then again, I don't have any statistics on how much these external services actually cost, nor how often this actually does happen. Simplest thing is for instagram/twitter to not care, and to point the finger at apple/android and tell them they should have UI to squelch high-frequency notifications. [1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/419326/us-teen-instagram-followers-number/ http://www.statista.com/statistics/419326/us-teen-instagram-...