EverythingTwitter

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.

Filed under: Follower Management, followers, follower_management, unfollow

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.

Filed under: Follower Management, followers, follower_management, unfollow

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)

Filed under: Follower Management, followers, follower_management, unfollow

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.

Filed under: Follower Management, followers, follower_management, unfollow