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It’s always amazing how people find and start following each other on Twitter. Unfortunately one of the curses of Twitter is a lot of automation tools. These tools usually come with outlandish promises of getting 100,000+ followers in 10 minutes. Argh!While I’m all for quantity, there does stand some reason to monitor the quality of your Twitter followers. So about once a quarter I like to do a purge of those Twitter followers I feel aren’t an ideal fit.
Twitter Karma http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ is the tool I use to do the semi-automated purge. Basically its an application that lists all your friends and followers in a way that’s easy to look at a glance. It’s sorted by last update, showing those who must recently updated first. You can sort the list alphabetically, either ascending or descending by Twitter ID. You can also filter the list in several other ways: only friends or only followers, all friends or all followers, and mutual friends. Then you simply go through and check all the people you’d like to unfollow and with the click of a button you will automatically unfollow those people.
How do I choose who to unfollow?
-Anyone having anything to do with anything lewd or X-rated. (You can usually tell this by their Twitter ID or the picture they use).
-Anyone looking to just spam (Weight Loss Related, Dating Related, Teeth Whitening)
Other than that I usually keep the other followers. Hope you find this tip helpful!
To Your Social Media Success,
Mande
P.S. If you ever encounter a situation where Twitter tells you, you can’t follow anymore people…by unfollowing some unnecessary people you’ll be able to go about following people again.
Mandy,
Thanks for these great tips! I am starting my spring cleaning today! Your posts on social media have been so helpful to my firm. Please don’t stop!!
Hi Mande,
I love these emails you send out. You always have such great tips. I don’t know how you do it for free.
I hope you’re getting lots of business somehow because you are such a giver and a wealth of EXCELLENT social media info.
Warmly,
Sharon Killion Quarmby
Mande,
If you have more than 2,000 followers, when is the next threshold where Twitter would say you can’t follow any more people?
Thanks for all of your helpful advice.
Nishika