EPIPE when following lots of users

[elliottkember]

When I try and follow a large number of users (>2000), I get this error:

events:12
throw arguments[1];
^
Error: EPIPE, Broken pipe
at Client._writeImpl (net:300:14)
at Client._writeOut (net:731:25)
at Client.flush (net:793:24)
at IOWatcher._doFlush as callback
at node.js:764:9

I'm running twitter-node 0.0.2 and node 0.2.0. It's not possible to pin down an exact point where the cutoff is, but it looks like it's around 1800 in this instance. I'm thinking it's something to do with sending all the user IDs to Twitter, but beyond that I'm in the dark. Is there some kind of workaround for following large numbers of users?