diff --git a/bot.js b/bot.js
index a738fe2..8bef112 100644
--- a/bot.js
+++ b/bot.js
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ async function feed(chan, provfeed, n) {
         return;
     }
     if (n === undefined) {
-        var n = 5;
+        var n = config.feed.default_amount;
     }
     const worker = new Worker('./commands/feed.js', { 
         workerData: {
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ async function twitter(chan, provfeed, n) {
         return;
     }
     if (n === undefined) {
-        var n = 5;
+        var n = config.twitter.default_amount;
     }
     const worker = new Worker('./commands/twitter.js', { 
         workerData: {
diff --git a/commands/feed.js b/commands/feed.js
index 0c634f1..59921af 100644
--- a/commands/feed.js
+++ b/commands/feed.js
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ async function fetchFeed(feedURL, n) {
         var n = newFeed.items.length;
         content.push(warningMsg+" Your requested post amount exceeded the total available. Reverting to " + newFeed.items.length);
     } else if (n < 1) {
-        var n = 5
-        content.push(warningMsg+" You requested a number less than 1. Reverting to 5");
+        var n = config.feed.default_amount
+        content.push(warningMsg+" You requested a number less than 1. Reverting to default ("+config.feed.default_amount+")");
     }
     //for (let i = 0; i < newFeed.items.length; i++) {
     for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
diff --git a/commands/twitter.js b/commands/twitter.js
index 0eac9c4..21511dd 100644
--- a/commands/twitter.js
+++ b/commands/twitter.js
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ async function fetchFeed(feedURL, n) {
         var n = newFeed.items.length;
         content.push(warningMsg+" Your requested post amount exceeded the total available. Reverting to " + newFeed.items.length);
     } else if (n < 1) {
-        var n = 5
-        content.push(warningMsg+" You requested a number less than 1. Reverting to 5");
+        var n = config.twitter.default_amount
+        content.push(warningMsg+" You requested a number less than 1. Reverting to default ("+config.twitter.default_amount+")");
     }
 
     for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
diff --git a/config/example.default.json b/config/example.default.json
index 16ad265..f2f1259 100644
--- a/config/example.default.json
+++ b/config/example.default.json
@@ -27,13 +27,15 @@
         "useragent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13.4; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0",
         "body_max_chars": "200",
         "time_format": "DD MMM YYYY HH:mm:ss ZZ",
-        "timezone": "Pacific/Auckland"
+        "timezone": "Pacific/Auckland",
+        "default_amount": "5"
     },
     "twitter": {
         "nitter_instances": [
             "nitter.1d4.us",
             "nitter.it",
             "nitter.pufe.org"
-        ]
+        ],
+        "default_amount": "5"
     }
 }
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