What has your experience of Twitter following been?
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Monday, 21 July 2014
Spring Cleaning My Twitter Account
I tried to follow someone on Twitter the other day and received a message to say that I was unable to follow any more accounts right now. The last time I received that message was four years ago when I was first building my Twitter following and hit the 2,000 ceiling. If you don't know, Twitter has in place a system which prevents aggressive following. If you hit 2,000 follows and have fewer than 1,800 followers you can't follow any more until your follower numbers catch up. There is basically a 10% leeway between follow and follower numbers. When I received the message the other day I was following around 5,900 and had around 5,300 followers.
The answer to my problem was to do a cleanup. In the past I have used a tool called Twitter Kharma but this time when I tried to load it, it never fully loaded so I went to Google to search for an alternative. I found a web-based utility called Tweepi. This tool seems to work really well. The approach I took was to unfollow anyone who hasn't tweeted for a very long time. By removing anyone who hadn't tweeted in more than two years I reduced the number of members I was following by around 1,400 accounts! Why was I following so many useless accounts? I can fully blame my follow activity from all those years ago. I was recommended a follow back tool at the time which automated my follow backs. I don't use these utilities anymore and now that I know better would definitely think better of them.
What has your experience of Twitter following been?
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What has your experience of Twitter following been?
Image credit: this image has been released to the Public Domain by its owner. See details
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I use a tool that allows me to unfollow people that unfollow me. I can also use it to unfollow people that are inactive or follow people that have similar interests. I think it's really cool to have control over my Twitter account!
My Followers are like 250 or something LOL I have a long way to go :)
I've never heard of Tweepi. I use Tweet Adder and can unfollow those who don't follow me, or follow back those who follow. I'm not a big user of Twitter anyway, although I should be, I guess.
I think I need to use Tweeti, I've had my Twitter account for years and years, it could use a cleaning.
I didn't know they place a limit, but I was using justunfollow to get rid of the dead weight. It let's you do 100 a day for free.
I am forever cleaning up my Twitter account. I use an iPhone app called JustUnfollow. It's great because it works for Twitter and for Instagram. You can see how followed, unfollowed and you can find people to follow.
I don't recall which website I used, but I saw somebody had mentioned it.. I was able to clear up my list pretty quickly. I have a similar thing for instagram but it's an app. I am slowly building my followers on both.
I use justunfollow too, and love it! I realize that early on, I followed a lot of people just because. Now I'm very selective.
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