Twitter shutting down spammers

Twitter yesterday announced that they are filing suit against five twitter tool providers and spammers.

This morning, we filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers. With this suit, we’re going straight to the source. By shutting down tool providers, we will prevent other spammers from having these services at their disposal. Further, we hope the suit acts as a deterrent to other spammers, demonstrating the strength of our commitment to keep them off Twitter.

This announcement did not mention any specific tools or providers.

Being a "victim" of Twitter spammers myself, I recently went on journey trying to find tools to quickly remove these unwanted spammers.
I have to admit, I have been using some of the tool providers, trying to get more followers. Even by setting your account with local or specific metric, you still get loads of unwanted followers.
Read this blog post here 

via: Twitter

Do the people who you follow on Twitter follow you?

Say goodbye to people on Twitter who does not want to be your friend

Just like a lot of you "tweeters", I have been thinking how to manage friends and followers on twitter. Let's have a look at the following tools and if they can perhaps offer a solution.

I have been using tools like Twiends, to get more followers, but the problem is that the ratio to people that I follow have been growing a bit out of proportion to the people following me.

Today I want to unfollow people who don't follow me back. Let's have a look at the tools available on the world wide interwebs ;P

Your Twitter Karma

I tried Twitter Karma after reading a positive review on http://socialtimes.com/twitter-bulk-follow-unfollow-tools_b8651. My first impression was that this is a no frills app, and this sometimes proves to be very effective.

You first need to authorise the app, once done, you need to press the Whack button ... sounds cool - BUT it took ages to bring up any results.

The results displayed was accurate, and you could select multiple or all account - but the options after this is a bit odd and really did not make sense? Perhaps I am just daft, but after selecting people that I already follow the following options came up:
- Bulk Follow
- Bulk Block
and then there is a link to Where did Bulk Unfollow go?

--- On January 15, 2010, Twitter instructed us to remove the "bulk unfollow" capability of Tweeter Karma as it has been determined to violate their Automation Rules and Best Practices. We have done so in order to comply with their request. We apologize to you, our users, for having to make this change, but hope you will understand it is outside of our control. ---

This is a deal killer for me unfortunately :-/

Bulk unfollow

Seems like Twitter does not like bulk unfollow functionality, and Twitter claims that it is in violation of it's TOS.

Quick workaround - in the Chrome Web Store and Firefox extension store do a search for CHECK ALL :-)

 

Friend or Follow

Who unfollowed me on Twitter? Who's not following me back? Who am I not following back? Who are my friends? Find out!

This is a great looking web-app with accurate results. The only downside is that to get your hands on the good stuff, you need to pay $9.99/mo.

In South Africa this works out to over a R100/mo and it makes this tool a bit to expensive.

Untweeps

Unfollow Twitter users who don't tweet often enough

Untweeps

This tool offers to unfollow twitter users who have not posted any tweets recently.
Untweeps only permits you to unfollow people who have not tweeted in a specific time range, like in the last 30 days for instance,

Works effectively, but not yet what I am looking for... so the quest conitnues

ManageFiltter

ManageFiltter

And I think we finally have a winner! ManageFlitter allows you to view your lists in Follow Order, Followers, Following, Listed Tweets, Username and Last Tweet.

When hovering over a listed user, you will get a bio and some more info.

I had to use the Check All extension, but it worked quickly and efficiently - without costing me a cent.

ManageFlitter also automatically sends your public Google+ posts to Twitter, as long as you have the service connected to your Twitter account.

 

Birds with blue feathers

I came across this article "How To Promote Your Social Media Accounts Offline". You just gotta luurve the cartoon :-)


 

Now that you have your Facebook page and your Twitter account up and running, you have ceremoniously blogged about it and put up links to these accounts from your website. It is quite easy to promote your social media efforts online. Just put up a link and a short invitation for people to add you up on Facebook or follow you on Twitter. In fact, there are even ready-made buttons and graphics to further make it easier for you to invite people on social media. But what about offline? How do you get the word out to your customers that they can now follow you on Twitter or perhaps read about the latest news about your business on your blog?

Head over to this link, to read the full blog post

http://www.topdesignmag.com

Writen by Bogdan