So in regards to Lou not being able to RT things, Twitter has an anti-spam feature where if you're mass-faving or mass-retweeting things, it will temporarily disable the sharing function on your account.
Considering Lou is a massive twitter addict, I had originally assumed he was trying to re-favorite all the posts he had on his last account, but no, that wasn't the case. I glanced his favorites list and no, almost every tweet he faved was put on twitter in the last 48-ish hours. What's actually baffling me is the sheer amount of content he's put out in this twitter account in that time.
First off, twitter doesn't easily show you how many tweets another user made anymore. But it's still visible on 3rd party clients like Tweetdeck:
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And for the sake of completeness, his twitter likes according to the twitter website:
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in less than 48 hours of creating this account, he's already racked up at least 558 interactions, and this number isn't counting posts that were deleted and any DMs he might have sent from the account. This is absolutely absurd to me. I've had some friends who were total twitter addicts and on the site all day, and even on their busiest days, they'd rarely have more than 100 interactions spread out between posting, retweeting, and faving things. Lou's doing
at least 2.5 times the amount of twitter activity as people who had legitimate addictions to the site. It's no fucking wonder Twitter flagged his account as a possible bot.