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Managing your followers and friends on Twitter is not easy. But its a fact that your success ratio and influence power is directly proportional to how active your followers are. I’ve realized that rather than who follows you or how many people follow you, its important to know whom you are following and how active they are.
Some of the factors that will determine your influence power on Twitter are
- How active your followers are.
- Do they ReTweet your tweets.
- Whether they are regularly updated and have a good following.
- Are those whom you follow, following you back etc.
With the default options on Twitter, its not really easy to manage your followers, but here are some interesting web based applications that I found to be of great help. Hope you find them useful too.
Twitter bird icon courtesy – Aravind Ajith
1. Mass Unfollow those who are not following you back with Huitter
I believe that there is no use in following people who aren’t reciprocating on Twitter. I use this tool weekly, to check for people who aren’t following me back. It automatically unfollows everyone who aren’t following you back. Huitter. 
2. Automatically unfollow all inactive accounts you are following with MyCleener
This is yet another tool that will help us automatically unfollow all the inactive accounts based on when their last tweet was, and help you save your follow number. MyCleener
3. Find out common users following and being followed by two accounts
This is a great tool, because if you knew two power user accounts, say from your niche, then you can find out who are the guys they keep in contact with and who are the guys they are following and followed by with this tool. Running this tool with maximum five accounts will more or less reveal the “hidden” circle among them. Very effective if you know whom to stalk. Who follows whom 
4. Manage your friends and followers with tags
This tool lets you rate and tag your friends and filter them on a timeline! You can also create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline by that group. Very effective, but a little complicated to use. Twittangle 
5. Unfollow people who have not updated within “X” amount of days
This is one of the best ones out there. It lets you find out the tweeps out of your followers who have not updated within a specified number of days (you can decide how many days is it) and lets you unfollow them. Extremely helpful when it comes to keeping your followers group healthy. Untweeps 
6. Find out which Tweet made you popular and which one un-popular
One of the things that’s frustrating about Twitter is the un availability of a tracking mechanism. I personally would like to know what was that one tweet that got me popular and which is the one tweet after which people unfollowed me. Very effective in finding out what people expect from you and what they don’t. This tool helps you find just that. Tweet Rank (it’s German, you may want to translate it to English.) 
7. Find out your ReTweet Rank
ReTweets I believe are a good measure to find out how popular your tweets are. This site picks up all the re-tweeted stories and grades you based on the number of re-tweets. Though its not sure what the algorithm is, its a nice tool to find out where you stand. Retweetrank 
8. Find out who’s following who on Twitter
Well basically this tool helps you to find out if those people you are following are following you back or not. Shows you the number of friends, fans and followers. But I use it for a different purpose. If I find out a power user in my niche who is popular and is often re-tweeted, I would like to find whom he is following and what are his sources. Simply use this tool, give in the username and it will show who all are following him, his friends and fans. The good thing is that you can sort them by the number of followers they have. So if you want to steal a power users “precious friends”, this tool comes in pretty handy. 
Friendorfollow 
9. Find out common followers between accounts
If you’re unsure whether to follow someone or not, just use this tool to find out if you have common interests and whether there are guys you are following in common. TwtrFrnd 
10. Find relevant and interesting Twitter users to follow
As I said earlier, a good twitter life is all about following and keeping in company with the most active and interesting Tweeps. And Mr.Tweet is one damn tool that lets you connect with them. I mean, its a very simple concept executed in an awesome way. It shows interesting profiles and stats such as they are active or not, responds to tweets or not and whether they’ll follow you back. Mr.Tweet
Most of these tools require username and password, so use them wisely. Hope you like them.
UPDATE
Thanks to Mark, who introduced this tool called Tweepular to me. I wish I had known them before making this list. It is “the” best tool I’ve found so far. It has almost all the features I can think of for managing followers. Do check it out and you’ll quit using all others.
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Great8 Post. Will check it
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This is a great list, but I don’t like huitter. SUmmarily dropping all those feeds that don’t follow you is a bad idea. Should be called quitter.
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A great list of Twitter tools.These tools are essential during the explosion of twitter.As you rightly said one should take care about user name and password.
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You forgot a good Firefox extension, not exactly an application but a definite plus in managing your tweeps and followers:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591
Downside: it slows loading twitter a bit, but worth it with all the added features like built in search from your twitter home…
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Aislinn O'Connor
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Didn’t know about Power Twitter – thanks for the tip!
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Nice set of tools. Tweeted this post. Thanx.
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Hi Mani,
This is very useful information. I’ve been wanting to do some clean up work on my twitter account but found it to be tedious. Now that you have shared some wonderful tools with us it should make my work simpler.
Cheers,
Eddie Gear
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I like the post but hey – a lot of people don’t want to make unecessary noise so keep quiet and follow. If you have 12000 followers do you want / expect them to all keep tweeting the whole time? I reckon a lot of these are really useful, but the unfollow ones a touch harsh. You could be losing a followers now who could be valuable later.
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Great information. I didn’t know there was so much to be automated. Thanks!
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Fantastic list, thank you so much!
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That was fun, although I couldn’t get #2 to work, it looks like some trouble on the site. I will try again in a bit. I gave you some tweetluv for your effort putting these new tools together. Mr. Tweet is the only one I had heard of.
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I’d be careful with Huitter. There are a lot of people who are worth following that don’t follow back. But yes there’s a lot of dross out there.
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What a fabulous resource. Thank you for sharing the great finds. All of these are new to me.
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Hey, This is a great collection. Thanks for preparing it.
You might be interested in looking at our tool too!! We do have an Twitter Account Management Tool. InRev TwitIn is available at buzzom.com
Bhupendra
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tommytrc
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Buzzom rocks. Great for bulk following back new followers. Love it!
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I am new to twitter and I am looking for ways to get more followers, I only have 3 right now and I really want more people to see what I have to say and what I am doing. Any ideas on how to get more people to come to my twitter page and follow me?
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tennisroll
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tennisroll
hi, Evan. I am new to twitter. I’ve only got three followers as well maybe you will be my 4th.
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Aislinn O'Connor
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1) Use Mr Tweet, & follow recommendations. Lots of them will follow back.
2) In Find People screen, put #MoreFollowers. You’ll see a long list of people who’ll be glad to follow back. Just pick the ones that interest you.
3) Do likewise with #FollowFriday.
4) Pick a Trending topic that interests you from the sidebar, click on it, and follow those whose comments you like.
5) Tweet a lot, reply to other people’s tweets, RT good tweets, and other people will find YOU!
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Good list of managers. I would add twitterholic on there as well, can be great to find people.
Number 2 was giving me trouble as well, it says they are limited to profiles with 700 followers or less.
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i will be releasing a twitter app in under 1 week that could easily become your most favorite twitter tool. follow me to find out about its upcoming release.
@jonathannelson
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A great set of tools!!
Thanks.
Philippe
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nice, what about managing the people that leave you?
whats the best tool to see who leaves?
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nice tools…will bookmark first and read later
Cheers!
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One of the better articles how to sort out the follow/following circle.
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Great post. Thanks you very much
You can see more: http://tr.im/huZC
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Great Tools — glad you shared! I will be check a couple of these out for myself. Thanks.
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Hey Mani it will help me to manage my follower in better way.
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friendorfollow has horrible stats. They lagged and so where not accurate for days at a time. also doesfollow had same issue. I would guess these apps need to use OAuth for real time numbers to improve service
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great post, thanks for the info
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Great post. Nice set of tools . . .
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Thanks really very useful inforamtion but tell me that how can we get traffic from twitter
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Wonderful post worth reading.
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Thank you for the info.. The twitter embed code i have used on my blog doesn’t seem to work correctly?
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Nice collection man, You can check an article on “Internet Techies” to manage twitter followers thru Gmail Mailbox. Thanks for sharing
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The tools for managing your twitter experience are just multiplying by the day! Twitter is starting to gain some serious momentum, and the latest is that they are going to challenge Google soon! Who could’ve thought it would evolve from this?
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Hi:
Nice post. That is one of the best article and it is very useful information. Good Tools – Thanks sharing me.
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You missed Tweepular.com It BLOWS Friendorfollow out of the water.
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Great list – we have 20 over at our site – some listed here and some not – thanks!
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Am very impressed with this list of tools, can’t wait to begin using some of the more interesting ones listed. I’m a little hesitant of huitter only because I follow a number of folks not so much for them to follow me but to follow their interesting or witty tweets. They often fit in the category of 5,000 followers but follow 40 themselves. On the other hand, many do return reply if you message them. Thanks and I will likely link this article on an upcoming tweet. Good stuff.
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Wonderful list..Thanks so much Mani……
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Mani,
There are many people claiming to know about these tools, only you have the really good ones. There are a number of other ones – FlashTweet, and Twitter Karma deserve mention, but only work occasionally if you fave a large follower base.
What I want to mention is that “huiter” is only Free as they initially claim for the First 3X only. After that you get this message:
“Sorry, but this script usage is limited for three times. If you want to continue please use another script. If you want to request another service just comment this post”.
Following the “another script” link, you are told you can use an unknown script for an unknown monthly Fee, and prompted for your Twitter ID and your Email, with PayPal Visa Donate button that says “Subscribe”. I stopped there, as no information as to what I was about to do was provided. Not that I’m not willing to pay for huiter, just find the redirect suspiciuos. Here’s the link decide for yourself. http://www.undergroundtwittertools.com/
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Twitter can be a very valuable link building tool but not for links on twitter itself. Its a kind of second order effect, I think this would be just as effective as some of the other social bookmarking sites, article sites and press release sites. So it could help but I would not put all my eggs in that basket.. Cheers keep up the articles.
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Another nice site that just launched—albeit more humorous—is TweetingTooHard.com (link). Allows users to submit, browse and vote for the most self-important and pretentious tweets.
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Best practice: make the embedded screenshots link to the *site*, not the screenshot itself.
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TweetLater will also do automatic following and unfollowing on Twitter.
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Great list and comments!
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Please check out my two Twitter applications for building, managing, nurturing and advertising your Twitter profile:
1. http://twittermass.com – A free suite of tools to help you build, manage and nurture your Twitter following. Has been positively reviewed by people such as ReadWriteWeb.com. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twittermass_a_smarter_way_to_auto-follow_on_twitter.php
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Thanks for this great list. Just to point out that Tweet Rank now have an english version up and running.
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Thanks for the information. A great resource
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great. thnx !
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Wow, I love these tools. Thanks
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I love Huitter and am using it now to update folllowers and non-followers… cool tool… highly recommended.
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I love Huitter and am using it now to update folllowers and non-followers… cool tool… highly recommended.
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Great post! Thanks for the tips!
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What a great blog. I was looking for this information for quite some time. Thanks
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With all the gazillions of Twitter tools, I would have to say that you’ve come up with the most sensible, useful tools.
Thanks!
MELANIE
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Found some good tool that I never came across..
I would like to try out “Who Follows Whom”..
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Why not use a fully automated Twitter poster to enhance your position within the Twitter community, there are many automated applications and softwares around now including http://www.twitterxtreme.com
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Awesome List!
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Grate work ….
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Great post! You should check out Ref.ly. It’s an amazing new tool for turning Bible verses into short URLs.
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Excellent list and thanks for including Tweepular at the end. I have found it to be an excellent tool that I use the most often.
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Thanks for sharing this tools. I too have come to absolutely love twitter tools. I found u blog by searching it on Google for twitter tools. A few of the ones you listed I am already starting to use as of now.
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Amazing tools,thanks
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Nice article, definitely worth reading.
Just want to add another service which works great; http://tweetsourcer.com
Happy tweeting!
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Nice list!
Please don’t forget about http://twittermass.com
- Follow by Keyword
- Remove Unwanted Guests
- Clone Twitter Users
- Manual Follow
- Follow Friday
- Track Followers
- Local Follow
- Follow by Popularity
- Message Center
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Very useful list of tools..I am definitely going to try some of these to manage my followers…Thanks
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nice list. We use some of them to manage our followers for Wild Mountain Gourmet
@wildmountain
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I checked out TwitterMass. Tweet Spinner is far superior. It’s free version has many of the same features as TM (TM charges $24/month for its basic version).
And Tweet Spinner’s pro version blows the competition out of the water.
For my Twitter management, I use Tweet Spinner and TweetLater. They cover all the bases for me.
http://bit.ly/mMvAD
Jay
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great source….nice…thanks for sharing
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Great list of Twitter tools http://bit.ly/zyaW
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@grum maybe a bit late but “Great list of Twitter tools” http://bit.ly/zyaW
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wow, this is a useful and nice collection. thank you.
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Does this mean she’ll use this to manage me? RT @ManiKarthik 10 Twitter tools to effectively manage your followers http://tinyurl.com/cpd5xj
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Awesome Post dude love your blog!
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Fantastic list. Thanks for sharing.
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Doing some housekeeping. Unfollowing non-reciprocating tweeps using tools mentioned here – http://bit.ly/zyaW
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@MarshaCollier The one’s mentioned here – http://bit.ly/zyaW (Tweepular is a nice one.)
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@paulocoelho Paulo, you could try using the tools here. Tweepular is a nice one. But right now, many apps are down. http://bit.ly/zyaW
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wow that’s is very good twitter tools…I will try this.. thankyou..
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Tweepular is the best tool so far. When it’s not available, use friendorfollow. Never know there are many more and will try them all one by one. Thank you for this great article.
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Very great this one!
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thank you for sharing.
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try have a look at http://bit.ly/gPLK5 listing twitter apps using OAuth login – Huitter and Tweepular included
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Pretty weak… MyCleenr is some part-time gig and they’ve capped their service to those who follow less than 700 accounts due to scalability issues
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Great, Great Apps!
Brilliant programing!
Genius!
Regards
Sean Vanity
President
http://www.SeanVanity.Com
http://www.HugePhony.Com (#1 in UK!)
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Anyone who’s only following me because I follow them back, or who would unfollow me because I don’t reciprocate, is following me for the WRONG reasons – and I wish them well in their decision to unfollow.
I wish there was a tool, though, that would catch those who unfollow the minute you DO follow them back…
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Hi Mani,
Awesome list
Am going to Try it out ! Thanks for sharing.
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