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December 21, 2011 • 8:57 pm 0

Followers Secret Monitor – see who unfollows you (SCAM)

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SCAM: It tweeted bad numbers, links and hastags under the test account.  Stay away

This one was sent in and I was suspicious from the start called Followers Secret Monitor (1.01 beta).  It appears for good reason.  Using a test account I logged into the application with oAuth an gave it rights.  I was expecting to see a list of who unfollowed me in some report fashion.  Maybe by date or after what tweet.

Unfortunately what was shows was a screen with a very bad pull of the profile picture and a number of people that supposedly unfollowed the account.  No times, no names, nothing.  Except a button to find lists that will follow you back to grow your followers.

We have reviewed a tool like this before, but it read your current followers and then compared it to then show who stopped.  I was unsure how this one could build the list without a start point anyway.

The site that runs this is TopTwitterShare which puts fun tweets on their homepage.  So use this at your own risk to no result we have seen yet.

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November 1, 2011 • 12:25 pm 0

Know Your Twitter Followers from Schmap.it

Know Your Twitter Followers is a very bland entry page announcing the beta status it currently carries.  You supposedly can get questions to things about your followers like:

  • Where do they live?
  • Are they married or single?
  • What jobs do they do?
  • Which hobbies & interests?
  • Who else do they follow?
  • Their location geographically

As usual, we ran a quick test to let you know how it works.  A quick oAuth approval and all I received was a python script error the first time.  It took off the second time.  In order to see your summary analysis you have to actually tweet the result.  Mine appeared as the following:

My followers like Technology (27.9%), News (16.0%) and Politics (11.9%). #KnowYourFollowers at: http://goo.gl/pjg4A

I was a bit upset I could not uncheck the button to follow their service, even if I was allowing the tweet to go.  I instead viewed the sameple report they did for Starbucks.

Schmap it summary

As you can see they give some good content that is generated from your followers.  The full analysis breaks all this down even further. (See example here).  They have a huge page on how they crunch and data mine the information.  Keep in mind it is acting as you to run this so you may see and be able to report on people that protect their streams.

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April 18, 2011 • 8:48 am 2

Fllwrs – you follower tracker service for Twitter @_fllwrs

Fllwrs provides you with a record of who follows and unfollows you each day on Twitter.  Have you ever wondered why your count goes up and down, even with the emails you get from Twitter (or the awesome Topify) showing who follows you?

Logging into the simple page takes you to oAuth page where I ended up highly disappointed:

We apologize, but it appears you have too many followers to use this service at this time.
Please come back again in the future when we expand the service to highly followed users.

So I logged in via one of the EverythingTwitter smaller test accounts only spammers seem to have found.  You then receive three checkboxes of settings:

  • follow @_fllwrs to get updates in your Twitter account (as expected)
  • post a tweet telling your friends about @_fllwrs (as expected)
  • automatically check followers daily and post a tweet with unfollowers (more on this one next)

Now I would like the service to check and maybe let me know time of day and after what tweet they left.  It helps give an indication as to what content might drive people away from your stream.  I do not want a broadcast list of shame going out to my other followers.

I did see a tiny link in the upper right for settings.  Clicking that simply rechecked all of the boxes instead of providing more choices.  I logged out.

I visited their Twitter page ( note the underscore for _fllwrs since the other was taken.).  They have over 34k followers showing people probably used the service and left the box checked.

While I think having a service showing times of unfollowing, having it tweet them out would not be a good choice.

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November 30, 2010 • 10:46 am 1

FollowFormation – follow top accounts by interest and more

FollowFormation is technically not new,  but it is still a useful tool.  Their description makes it easier than retyping:

Followformation is a tool for novice Twitter users (we call them “chirpers”) to get started with following the top people in the categories of their interest, and top people in the cities in which they live in. You can call it Twitter’s suggested users feature on steroids
What is interesting is that FollowFormation uses other Twitter directories to build it’s categories and lists.  So we end up with a tool built on other tools.
They also do not want you to use their system to game Twitter.  They built in varying limits that change constantly and can block you from following more until the next day.
How do they make money?  Easy.  Up to 10% of names in the lists are paid placements.  I still like grass-roots growth initiatives.  I realize some look at Twitter as a pure marketing channel, but it is so much more.  Non-profits and charities can get a free slot, which is a nice touch from them.
Followformation has a winter Olympics edition built for you as well.  So they play ti smart and build categories around upcoming events.

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July 12, 2010 • 10:36 am 1

tlists – search, curate and join Twitter lists

tlists allows you to search, curate, join and follow Twitter lists, a tool that is needed to make lists useful.  The main page starts you with a slick interface with some top lists and the hashtag categories they cover, as well as a search.  You are able to see the curator, apply to the list and even follow it.  Authentication is done via oAuth to Twitter for ease of integration your account.  You are able to add your own lists as well.

I authenticated myself quickly, with one of the best oAuth descriptive screens I have seen in the thousands of tools we review.  I was given views for:

  • lists I own/curate
  • share curation
  • have applied
  • follow

The charting of the lists showed stats on:

  • hashtags
  • members
  • followers
  • applications
  • tweets per day
  • balance
  • status of who can apply to the list

Right there I was impressed with the list management so I moved on to searching.  I searched for Lotus, as in the software and learned something unique the service offers.  It showed me matching lists and SuperLists.

SuperLists are real-time channels comprised of the most frequently ‘listed’ Twitter feeds in a vertical or geographic category.

The TLISTS aggregator adds or updates tens of thousands of Twitter Lists every day. These Lists are continuously indexed by their name, description, member bios and recent member tweets — and then, if relevant, sorted into hundreds of popular categories. Several times a day, the Lists within every category are synthesized to generate the SuperList.

The matching SuperList is the channel that most frequently includes your search query.

This was a great discovery!!  If you decide to apply to a list it actually sends a tweet to the list owner asking to be added.  A tad self presumptuous having to ask someone to be part of it.  Mainly when the only follower of the list is the list curator themselves.

Still a great way to find lists, follow lists and help be part of simplifying seeing massive amounts of content without following hundreds of people.

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June 21, 2010 • 9:45 am 2

ManageFlitter – fast and easy unfollowing

ManageFlitter greets you with a simple page asking you to connect to Twitter via oAuth to “take a look”.  Nothing more is provided on the page and no help link or about page was linked.

After approving the oAuth, it scans your tweets and followers and begins showing who has been quiet, inactive, missing profile images and more.  You can search bios, tweets and more.  Select everyone to unfollow them immediately and deselect verified accounts and popular liked.

You are able to see the number of people that unfollowed you with the tool as well as download a csv file of everyone you follow.

In all a great tool but the UI is unclear in how to best work it.  There was a link for a dashboard, where I had high expectations.  I think with some UI changes this can be an effective tool.  As well as a link to information from the splash page would be welcomed.

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April 28, 2010 • 10:03 am 0

Muuter – need a temporary break from someone?

Muuter is a great tool to put a silencer on someone that is tweeting away at a conference you do not care about, or maybe some sports event.  They make a good point of explaining if you unfollow someone, odds are you would forget to follow them back.  Using this service gives you the needed break. They do the entire unfollow/follow action automated.

You are able to send a Direct Message to the service specifying who to silence and for how long.  They utilize oAuth to engage the service and their actions do count towards your API usage.  So beware of that.  They do log every request they perform for you to review and act upon if necessary.

For a full FAQ see it here.

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February 26, 2010 • 10:21 am 1

ManageTwitter – clean up and matter who you follow

ManageTwitter is a tool to help you guage the effectiveness of those that you follow.  Utilizing oAuth, you log in allow the service to get some information such as the following:

  • who is following you back
  • what accounts are dormant or quiet
  • what accounts are talkative

It will automatically suggest a number of people you can unfollow (mine came in at 63) with some great options.  The first one I noticed is the choice to select allor unselect all.  But the ability to unselect only verified accounts, was a big bonus.  Then a following option allowed you to unselect popular accounts.

This means that the verified or popular are more than likely huge accounts that do not follow many back (read this as stars and geek gods/goddesses).

I went through the choices to first see the accounts that have not tweeted in 30 days, with some surprising results.  Hovering over any name shows total tweets, numbers of followed and followers and how long ago the account was created.

This has been the easiest and quickest follower management tool to adjust who you follow.  Heck it even told me the number of people that unfollowed me with the tool,  Thank goodness it was only 1 (yet I tweet often and am active.  I hope they didn’t do what I almost did and forget to uncheck someone)

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February 23, 2010 • 10:32 am 2

JustUnfollow – pick to unfollow that that don’t follow you

JustUnfollow is a tool from Twi5 that allows you to pick and choose who to unfollow, based on those that don’t follow you back.  One thing they did right was to not make this a bulk tool.  Right now you only get 50 people listed, but I imagine that will increase soon.

If they can add in ways to sort by not only who isn’t following you back, but also who hasn’t tweeted in a certain timeframe.

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December 29, 2009 • 10:52 am 0

FirstFollower – who was your first?

FirstFollower is a simple site that pulls up what should be your first follower that you ever gained.  Now Twitter has made some changes to how followers are listed, so I am guessing this is accurate.  Either way it is a fun site that works against any name. A great two second time waster for sure.

You can also take the randomly generated tweet it makes about the follower it discovers and send that if you wish.  There is both an English and Russian version of the site.

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