Remember that Hubspot statistic that revealed that almost 56 percent of Twitter accounts are not following anyone? Or the one from Harvard Business Review that stated that 10 percent of active Twitter users are responsible for 90 percent of all the tweets? If you have a Twitter account, the chances are good you've accumulated a sizeable number of deadbeat users.
Manually sifting through your followers to identify these users could take hours. That's why several sites have sprung up to help you take back control of your Twitter account. These sites scan your followers and generate a list identifying which ones haven't tweeted in a while so that you to remove them accordingly. Check out my top five picks for free sites that help you efficiently restore order to your account.
1. ManageTwitter.
With ManageTwitter you're able to sort your Twitter contacts based on who's inactive, who tweets more than five times a day and who tweet less than once a day. You can further subdivide these lists based on the date you began following someone, their username, number of followers or their time zone. ManageTwitter also features a mass select and deselect action for unfollowing users.
2. Tweepi.
Tweepi's "Cleanup" tool gives you five options for organizing the people you follow on Twitter. You can sort according to which of your followers are most active, which are most influential, how frequently they retweet others, how often they engage in discussions (measured by their number of @replies), and their follower-to-following ratio. Tweepi also lets users weed out "linkless ramblings." In this manner, you can select which users you want to follow back or unfollow entirely.
3. TweetSpinner.
TweetSpinner offers a wealth of functionality. Its Direct Message inbox tool finds and archives messages older than seven days and searches your inbox for spam (something I wish Twitter would implement on its site). TweetSpinner's follower manager targets particular audiences you might be interested in following as well as followers you might wish to ditch. The service also offers a profile rotator and a tweet scheduler. Some of TweetSpinner's features can be customized, though customization may require a paid membership. To use TweetSpinner, you need to register with the site and allow it to access your Twitter account.
4. Twerp Scan.
Twerp Scan helps you manage your followers and the contacts you're following. Allow the site access to your Twitter account and it will generate a report detailing for each contact how many followers they have, how many people they're following, their follower-to-following ratio, their number of tweets and the date of their last tweet. You can sort your contacts based on any of these characteristics, and by clicking a box, you can either mass follow, delete or block them.
5. UnTweeps.
UnTweeps is a basic tool that hooks into your Twitter account. It gives you three options: You can view the people you follow who haven't updated their status in 30 days (or any time period you choose); you can generate a list of followers based their days of inactivity; and you can view the Twitter accounts that you have blocked. You can then unfollow certain accounts accordingly.
Staff Writer Kristin Burnham covers consumer Web and social technologies for CIO.com. She writes frequently on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google. You can follow her on Twitter: @kmburnham.
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Jumat, 26 Februari 2010
14 Reasons I Won’t Follow You On Twitter [Revisited]
With a sudden flurry of tweets and blog comments for my original post of the same name over at my Executive Resume Branding blog, I decided to take a second look at my “won’t follow” criteria four months later.
Let me first say that these are not hard and fast rules that I even follow myself all the time, so I don’t mean to imply that you should adhere to any of them.
Follow people based upon your own goals for communicating your personal brand and leveraging Twitter. If it’s important to you to have a huge following, then by all means follow back everyone who follows you and follow anyone new you come across.
But, if you feel you should be selective, consider my criteria to prompt your own list, depending upon your own purposes with Twitter.
Here’s my somewhat revised list of things that will keep me from following you, along with a few caveats and thoughts, followed by recent contributions from readers in their blog comments on the original post:
1. You have no photo.
Personal branding is about creating emotional connections. People are drawn more to tweets that are accompanied by the author’s photo. And a photo helps me know you’re a real person.
Don’t worry if you’re not good-looking. Like most people, I won’t judge you by how handsome or pretty you are. Choose an appealing photo that strikes the right image and professional tone for your industry and niche.
When it comes down to it, even a poor quality photo of yourself is better than none.
2. You have no Twitter bio.
How can I know who you are, what you have to offer, and whether we may be able to help each other?
I have to admit though, that I will follow people without photos or a bio, based upon the company they keep. If you’re following a lot of people I know and respect, who are in my sphere, I’ll probably follow you anyway.
3. Your bio and tweets are loaded with glaring typos or grammatical errors or don’t make sense to me.
I do make allowances sometimes though, especially if it appears that English is not your first language.
4. Your bio is loaded with unrealistic claims about yourself or your company.
The tweets of these Tweeple usually follow suit, with promises of making easy cash, getting whiter teeth in minutes, etc. YAWN!
5. Your profile has no link to further info about you.
I want to know who you are and if you’re legitimate.
6. Your tweets are mostly chit chat that doesn’t interest me, or teach me anything, or inspire me.
Another big YAWN! But that’s just me. I know lots of people who do very well meeting their own Twitter goals and connecting with lots of people in this way.
7. Your tweets consistently pound me with self-promoting blog posts and information.
If you have to talk about yourself all the time, you’re probably not that great.
8. I really don’t like your politics.
I generally shy away from politics all together on social networks, except if it’s an issue very near and dear to my heart.
9. Your niche and tweets are completely unrelated to mine.
I usually stay within my own sphere. But I’ll pretty much follow anyone who RTs me, especially if it’s a blog post I’ve written. I greatly appreciate it when people take the time to read (hopefully!) my posts and RT me. Heck, just like everyone else, I love a pat on the back.
10. Your tweets tell me over and over that I can get 1,000 new Twitter followers a day if I follow your simple rules or buy something from you.
I doubt that the people you’re going to help me find are those I want to have follow me.
11. You haven’t tweeted in, say, over a month or so.
This isn’t terribly important, but I have to wonder about you. And I can’t get much of a feel for who you are with such infrequent tweets.
A big exception to this is if you’re someone who’s obviously struggling with getting a handle on Twitter and you’ve just started following me. I figure, maybe watching someone like me, who’s fairly active on Twitter, will be encouraging and help you get a feel for what you can do with Twitter.
12. You follow and are followed by hundreds or thousands, but you’ve only tweeted maybe a dozen times all together.
This is suspect to me. You’re not using Twitter the way I do, so we’re probably not a good follow fit.
13. Your profile in any way smacks of spam, pornography, violence, or anything against my sensibilities.
I don’t care if you RT every one of my tweets, I’m not interested in aligning myself with you or your world.
14. A lot of the people you follow are shady, as in #13.
I do pay attention to the company you keep. Following these kinds of Tweeple means that you follow back everyone who follows you, or you practice that kind of tweeting yourself, or both.
Let me first say that these are not hard and fast rules that I even follow myself all the time, so I don’t mean to imply that you should adhere to any of them.
Follow people based upon your own goals for communicating your personal brand and leveraging Twitter. If it’s important to you to have a huge following, then by all means follow back everyone who follows you and follow anyone new you come across.
But, if you feel you should be selective, consider my criteria to prompt your own list, depending upon your own purposes with Twitter.
Here’s my somewhat revised list of things that will keep me from following you, along with a few caveats and thoughts, followed by recent contributions from readers in their blog comments on the original post:
1. You have no photo.
Personal branding is about creating emotional connections. People are drawn more to tweets that are accompanied by the author’s photo. And a photo helps me know you’re a real person.
Don’t worry if you’re not good-looking. Like most people, I won’t judge you by how handsome or pretty you are. Choose an appealing photo that strikes the right image and professional tone for your industry and niche.
When it comes down to it, even a poor quality photo of yourself is better than none.
2. You have no Twitter bio.
How can I know who you are, what you have to offer, and whether we may be able to help each other?
I have to admit though, that I will follow people without photos or a bio, based upon the company they keep. If you’re following a lot of people I know and respect, who are in my sphere, I’ll probably follow you anyway.
3. Your bio and tweets are loaded with glaring typos or grammatical errors or don’t make sense to me.
I do make allowances sometimes though, especially if it appears that English is not your first language.
4. Your bio is loaded with unrealistic claims about yourself or your company.
The tweets of these Tweeple usually follow suit, with promises of making easy cash, getting whiter teeth in minutes, etc. YAWN!
5. Your profile has no link to further info about you.
I want to know who you are and if you’re legitimate.
6. Your tweets are mostly chit chat that doesn’t interest me, or teach me anything, or inspire me.
Another big YAWN! But that’s just me. I know lots of people who do very well meeting their own Twitter goals and connecting with lots of people in this way.
7. Your tweets consistently pound me with self-promoting blog posts and information.
If you have to talk about yourself all the time, you’re probably not that great.
8. I really don’t like your politics.
I generally shy away from politics all together on social networks, except if it’s an issue very near and dear to my heart.
9. Your niche and tweets are completely unrelated to mine.
I usually stay within my own sphere. But I’ll pretty much follow anyone who RTs me, especially if it’s a blog post I’ve written. I greatly appreciate it when people take the time to read (hopefully!) my posts and RT me. Heck, just like everyone else, I love a pat on the back.
10. Your tweets tell me over and over that I can get 1,000 new Twitter followers a day if I follow your simple rules or buy something from you.
I doubt that the people you’re going to help me find are those I want to have follow me.
11. You haven’t tweeted in, say, over a month or so.
This isn’t terribly important, but I have to wonder about you. And I can’t get much of a feel for who you are with such infrequent tweets.
A big exception to this is if you’re someone who’s obviously struggling with getting a handle on Twitter and you’ve just started following me. I figure, maybe watching someone like me, who’s fairly active on Twitter, will be encouraging and help you get a feel for what you can do with Twitter.
12. You follow and are followed by hundreds or thousands, but you’ve only tweeted maybe a dozen times all together.
This is suspect to me. You’re not using Twitter the way I do, so we’re probably not a good follow fit.
13. Your profile in any way smacks of spam, pornography, violence, or anything against my sensibilities.
I don’t care if you RT every one of my tweets, I’m not interested in aligning myself with you or your world.
14. A lot of the people you follow are shady, as in #13.
I do pay attention to the company you keep. Following these kinds of Tweeple means that you follow back everyone who follows you, or you practice that kind of tweeting yourself, or both.
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