I’ve been using Twitter for about three years, and until a few days ago, I could manage my followers and who I followed fairly easily.
A few nights ago I wanted to see why my follow/follower ratio was so different. After scrolling through for a little bit, I realized that some had stopped following me, but I still followed them. This prompted me to find a Twitter management tool.
ManageFlitter
In about ten minutes, I pared 70 from my Follow list with ManageFlitter.
It’s really easy to use.
Connect it to your Twitter account:
This is when the fun begins!
You first start-off with the unfollow process.
It lists all of those that are not following you back:
(This screenshot was after I used it the first time, that’s why the number is so low)
Go through the list and check the box of those you want to unfollow. It even gives you a running tallied number of those you’ve selected to unfollow.
If this doesn’t prune your list enough, ManageFlitter has some other great ways to sort who you’re following:
- No Profile Image
- Inactive
- Talkative
- Quiet
These other options are really nice, too. Remove those “egg heads” who have Tweeted six times in the past two years, those that started a Twitter account and never use it, and get rid of those that Tweet every 20 minutes, 24 hours a day.
By the time I was finished, my follow/followers ratio had flip-flopped! This certainly wasn’t my intention, but really shows how much house cleaning my Twitter account needed.
ManageFlitter is completely free to use, but you’ll have to pay the monthly subscription of $12 per month if you want the other features:
- Track everyone who has unfollowed you and when.
- Unlimited daily unfollows.
- Whitelist people you won’t unfollow.
- Multiple filtering options.
- Quickly follow everyone who has recently @replied to you or you have retweeted.
- See which of your followers you aren’t following back.
- Download CSV backup file of all your Twitter connections.
Learn more and give ManageFlitter a try!
[Image via Tarik Browne]
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