diff --git a/backend/scraper/management/commands/scrape.py b/backend/scraper/management/commands/scrape.py
index e3c0c59..8f30fa5 100644
--- a/backend/scraper/management/commands/scrape.py
+++ b/backend/scraper/management/commands/scrape.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ SEED = 'mastodon.social'
 TIMEOUT = 20  # seconds
 NUM_THREADS = 16  # roughly 40MB each
 PERSONAL_INSTANCE_THRESHOLD = 5  # instances with < this many users won't be scraped
-STATUS_SCRAPE_LIMIT = 100
+STATUS_SCRAPE_LIMIT = 5000
 
 
 class Command(BaseCommand):