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We’ve all seen how valuable Twitter is as a social media tool and as an effective mass messaging platform. In your goal to cover as much ground as possible to reach your core audience and widen your network, you find your number of followers increasing rapidly and on a daily basis. Sure, you can equate this to your brand’s popularity however, if history serves us well, there are times when bots and racketeering individuals have also jumped onboard the social networking boat.
To prevent this from happening, Twitter has been coming up with one security feature after another. Some IT security firms have also released warnings and updates to keep users aware of the dangers that lurk in social networks. Aside from these, there’s also the concurrent noise building up from having too many people in your feed. In this week’s Tool Time, we show you two services to further keep your Twitter experience less cluttered.
Friend or Follow
Possibly developed originally to find out which among those ingrates you call “friends” aren’t even following you back, Friend or Follow can also be used for screening your list of followers. It will similarly display the people you follow back and the ones you’re not following. This will help you target your audience and get a better understanding as to who is actually listening to what you’re saying, who is merely occupying space in your twitterstream and who you may have forgotten to follow. You can filter the user types whether they’re public, protected or verified profiles and then import the information as a CSV report for later analysis.
Untweeps
Some people have love-hate relationships with Twitter. While some stay and try to make it work for them, others have chosen to move on and live Twitter-free lives. Untweeps lets you clear out the latter from your side of the Twitterverse by displaying those profiles that have not sent out tweets in the last 30 days or more so you can either unfollow them or protect them from being taken off your buddy roster by putting them on a Whitelist.
Tags: Cleanup, Friend or Follow, Social Media, social networks, Tool Time, Twitter, Untweeps
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