10 ways to manage your twitter followers

Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by admin in Twitter

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There are a number of 3rd party tools you can use to manage your twitter followers and people you follow. Whether you want to find new people to follow or remove people who dont follow you back. Here we take a look at the options.

Finding new people to follow

1. Wefollow – A great directory of twitter members from Kevin Rose, the creator of digg.com. People are categorised by tags and it has a search feature.

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2. Twellow – Not as nice to look at as wefollow, Twellow is another twitter directory with a large number of people listed.

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3. Twollo – Become a member and Twollo will auto-follow people for you based on keywords you select. It finds people via twitter search.

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4. Twollow – Similar to Twollow, auto follows people for you based on keyword search. Offers paid options.

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5. Mr Tweet - Acts as a friend finder by analysing your current followers, also provides more information if twitter users such as frequency of tweets etc.

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Managing your Followers / Followings

1. Huitter Mutuality – Allows you to bulk unfollow people who dont follow you back, or just bulk unfollow people.

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2. Tweepular – If you don’t mind the most goudy interface I think I have ever seen, Tweepular offers a more advanced way to manage followers with bulk adding, bulk unfollowing etc.

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3. MyCleenr – Spring clean your following list with this app – allows you to unfollow people who have not recently tweeted.

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4. TwitTangle – “twitTangle is a free service that helps you untangle the mess of having too many friends on twitter. We allow you to rate and tag your friends and then filter your timeline to help you easily find the tweets that are most important to you”

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5. Twitter Karma – Bulk unfollow people who dont follow you back, add people who follow you but you havent followed back yet.

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If you know of more apps for managing twitter follows/followings feel free to leave them in the comments.

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15 Comments

ilike2flash

15. Jul, 2009

Thanks for these twitter tools and resources. I like the mycleenr link.

Martin Richardson

16. Jul, 2009

I’ll have to try some of these, is the number system a rating? What is the personal favorite?

admin

16. Jul, 2009

Hi Martin,
They are in no particular order although my favourites are wefollow.com and Huitter Mutuality. Hope that helps.

I discovered Tweet Spinner http://tr.im/TwSp about a month ago and I’m very happy with it. It allows me to automatically follow people by keywords, followers or followings of specified users, filter by location, smart purge those not following back (excluding specified percentage of most recently followed), plus a whole lot more, and it can all be on automatic schedule.

Ron Outlaw

24. Jul, 2009

Very good post. Iam using some of these tools and they work well.

Herb Maon

25. Jul, 2009

Great info! Thanks! I alrady use several of them and will be checking out the rest.

avelcomms

26. Jul, 2009

thanks for the info, came just at the right time as my follow list begins to grow, doing everything manually is becoming unviable. Will have to go through this list and see what will add benefit without becoming too spammy

Twittnutt

27. Jul, 2009

Twitter Karma tech support have a lot to learn and achieve if they want to make the grade……

Used and tested all the others although I have stopped using auto follow software.

Each to their own…

avelcomms

27. Jul, 2009

Okay so went through the list,
Tweepular has great functionality and allows you to easily manage your list, although I would suggest wearing shades when using it.
Mr Tweet has not responded with log in details so that one will have wait and Twollo looks useful but has erratic functionality, so will have to see if results justify the frustration.
The others well did not see them as providing solutions to managing large lists.

Phallus Nocturne

30. Jul, 2009

/IMHO

Ppl should stay away from twitTangle!

There is not a lot of communication coming out from the twitTangle ppl and it’s really bugged!

You could spend hours managing your followers, creating groups and come back the next morning to find all of that hard work gone “for good”.

In my personal experience I found the site extremely heavy and slow and crazily bugged

(There should be a warning about the amount of time you can waits)

The concept of twitTangle is great and I hope that one day they/someone will make it work!

Jason Tryfon

01. Aug, 2009

LOL Tweepular founder here. Funny thing about our GUI is that it’s the number one thing people talk about! They either love it, or hate it.

All that matters to us, is that you like our functionality.
TweepularPro drops in a month…wait until you see that version… : )

Thanks for the write up!

Dean Collins

02. Aug, 2009

If you dont want to hand over your twitter usernames and passwords to a third party website but want to implement a “keyword” autofollow
Or
if you are running multiple accounts and need more than 100 api hits an hour (if you get your ip address whitelisted you can get 20,000 api calls an hour).

Then check out http://www.MyTwitterButler.com for $10 it’s a windows .net application that run directly on your pc instead of in the cloud.

It does two things;

1/ Auto Follows Users with up to 4 search terms per twitter account (allows multiple accoutns – I run mine with 11 accounts simultaneously but it slows it down).

2/ Direct Message Broadcast – you can send a direct message to all you users with just one click.

Cheers,
Dean

Andre

08. Aug, 2009

hello, just be careful since some of these sites/ service simply donĀ“t tell you about twitter limits and you may end up being blocked, suspended, etc…

this happened to me and took me about 25 days to recover service…

just an advice anyways..

Andre

Jim

27. Aug, 2009

Hay.. thanks for the list.. I’ve found some of them very good. I’ll be subscribing to the RSS feed.

Ron Outlaw

28. Aug, 2009

Thanks I was looking for tools like these.

Ron

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