Twitter continuously surges up to an approximate 12 million users (or more) by the end of the year. With this growing number of users, some of us are starting to experience with what we call as “followholism”. You’ve probably followed thousands of people and with this growing numbers, keeping track is difficult. With this, a little housekeeping is a definitely a good idea.
But how do you do it? You might as well agree that Twitter’s own tools for dealing with followers are becoming less than the accepted standards. It’s quite impossible to find out who among your thousands of followers are following you back as well. This is because the interface for paging throughout the followers is clumsy and complicated. Luckily, Twitter’s API has provided variety of astounding third party applications. So we’ve compiled a very useful tool kit of services that can help you manage your Twitter account and organize your followers.
Twitter Tools for Finding Your Friends in Twitter
Unlike many other social networks, not all relationships on Twitter are fair. Twitter allows you to follow most people even without their permission. There may be already plenty of people following you that you are not following back and likewise, there may be plenty of people whom you are following but do not follow you back. This may not be necessary if their content is good and it is a good move to follow them because of their content. But, you know who your friends are and whom you think are beneficial to you and this is very helpful when organizing your twitter follows.
- Qwitter – This twitter-based application provides update through your email whenever someone stops following you when you’ve already done initial cleaning. It can even let you know and give you idea what specific tweet did you do that caused them to stop following you. This application is very helpful especially when you are losing five or more followers every time you tweet about something.
- Twitter Karma – This great twitter-based application allows you to sort through all your follows and sees who’s not following you in return and who is following you that you do not follow.
- Friend or Follow – This twitter-based application is closely functional like with Twitter Karma which is to help you find out who your friends, follows, and followers on twitter. The only difference is its presentation and this application is more accurate to use when you have large numbers of follows and followers.
Twitter Tools for Finding Out Who You Are Following in Twitter
When you started twitter, you probably started following people immediately in order to make use of some of the site’s utility since the only way to connect to a conversation is by following it. When you already got used to twitter, you as well probably felt the urge to clean up your list because you might have noticed that not all of the people whom you followed for the sake of getting followers follow you back. Or you just found out that not all of the people in your following list are not necessarily the type of people you would want to connect with. Hence, here are some tools that will help you investigate your tweeps to help you decide whether you would want to keep following them or not.
- Twinfluence – This twitter-based tool uses a scientific approach of measuring the influence of a certain twitter user. It has other sets if metrics that is very useful to help you find out who you want to follow.
- TwitterGrader – This twitter application uses 5piece of detailed algorithm. Twitter Grader allocates every user you run through its system from 1-1000. With this tool, you can investigate how active the people you’re following are which can definitely help you decide whether to keep on following them or not.
- Tweetcloud – The types of content that a twitter user tweets about is one of the most important considerations with deciding whether to follow him/her or not. If someone tweets about a topic that you are not interested with, then they may not be the right person to follow. Tweetcloud makes a tag of cloud of a person’s tweets to give you a bird-like eye’s view of what are the things they tweet about.
Twitter Tools for Getting Rids of Inactive Tweeps
Recent study shows that 80% of people using twitter have less than a number of 10 total tweets. This might be not as bad thing because some people just join twitter just to follow to track updates and do not have interest to be followed back. But there are still inactive twitter users that may not be practical to be followed. So here are two tools that can help you clean up the inactives.
- Twitoria – This application searches though your entire account in Twitter and finds anyone who has been inactive for the past weeks, months, past two months, past six months, or even year.
- Nest.Unclutterer – This application automatically blocks twitter users who have been inactive for certain number of days or who have not been following numbers of people. You can determine those threshold and enlist certain tweeps so they will be exempted from cleaning. Nest.Unclutterer is actually not all about who you are following but more about making sure that people following you are you are your friends that you would want to be associated with.
Twitter Tool for Overall Tweep Management
Now that the cleaning up of your Twitter follow list is done, it is now time to proceed with keeping up on the other top things. Below are twitter-based applications that will help you managed your new follows and followers better.
- Tweepler – This twitter-based application is a new follower management tool that allows you to make quick, one click decisions of whether to follow a certain group of people back or just drop them to an ignore pile. Another feature of this tool aside from being ablt to view recent tweets, Tweepler also provides helpful statistics about the new followers such as average tweets per day.
- TweetSum – This application digests all your new followers and rates them using DBI or Douche Bag Index. This DBI is a number that supposedly cleans out Twitter users that are likely annoying and then allows you to follow them back or group them as tweeps that you won’t bother to follow. You can also see a list of new tweets for each new followers as well which is also very helpful.