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Mar
17

10 Twitter tools to effectively manage your followers



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-tools

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. mass-unfollow-tool-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

automatically-clean-inactive-accounts

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 who-follows-who

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 twittangle1

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 unfollow-inactive-users

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.) tweet-rank

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 retweet-rank

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 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 twitterfriend1

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

mrtweet 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.

tweepular

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Comments at Daily SEO blog
  1. Anish K.SNo Gravatar

    Great8 Post. Will check it

    Reply

  2. JeffNo Gravatar

    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.

    Reply

  3. GeorgeNo Gravatar

    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.

    Reply

  4. PeterNo Gravatar

    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…

    Reply

  5. RajNo Gravatar

    Nice set of tools. Tweeted this post. Thanx.

    Reply

  6. Eddie GearNo Gravatar

    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

    Reply

  7. JPNo Gravatar

    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.

    Reply

  8. Lady LimuNo Gravatar

    Great information. I didn’t know there was so much to be automated. Thanks!

    Reply

  9. Simon PatrickNo Gravatar

    Fantastic list, thank you so much!

    Reply

  10. DawnNo Gravatar

    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.

    Reply

  11. Glenn JimersonNo Gravatar

    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.

    Reply

  12. Barbara SwaffordNo Gravatar

    What a fabulous resource. Thank you for sharing the great finds. All of these are new to me.

    Reply

  13. BhupendraNo Gravatar

    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

    Reply

  14. EvanNo Gravatar

    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?

    Reply

    tennisrollNo Gravatar Replied:

    tennisroll
    hi, Evan. I am new to twitter. I’ve only got three followers as well maybe you will be my 4th.

    Reply

  15. BrainLineNo Gravatar

    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.

    Reply

  16. Jonathan NelsonNo Gravatar

    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

    Reply

  17. PhilippeNo Gravatar

    A great set of tools!!
    Thanks.
    Philippe

    Reply

  18. HoldemmNo Gravatar

    nice, what about managing the people that leave you?

    whats the best tool to see who leaves?

    Reply

  19. breadNo Gravatar

    nice tools…will bookmark first and read later

    Cheers!

    Reply

  20. Doug CaldwellNo Gravatar

    One of the better articles how to sort out the follow/following circle.

    Reply

  21. Danh ba web 2.0No Gravatar

    Great post. Thanks you very much
    You can see more: http://tr.im/huZC

    Reply

  22. cincinNo Gravatar

    Great Tools — glad you shared! I will be check a couple of these out for myself. Thanks.

    Reply

  23. ListorbitNo Gravatar

    Hey Mani it will help me to manage my follower in better way.

    Reply

  24. @jchronowski4yNo Gravatar

    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

    Reply

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  26. Sheila (@stinginthetail)No Gravatar

    great post, thanks for the info

    Reply

  27. VikiNo Gravatar

    Great post. Nice set of tools . . . :)

    Reply

  28. JavedmalikNo Gravatar

    Thanks really very useful inforamtion but tell me that how can we get traffic from twitter

    Reply

  29. HarrisNo Gravatar

    Wonderful post worth reading.

    Reply

  30. Nick RinyloNo Gravatar

    Thank you for the info.. The twitter embed code i have used on my blog doesn’t seem to work correctly?

    Reply

  31. SanjeevNo Gravatar

    Nice collection man, You can check an article on “Internet Techies” to manage twitter followers thru Gmail Mailbox. Thanks for sharing

    Reply

  32. Ruby WebNo Gravatar

    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?

    Reply

  33. HaikouNo Gravatar

    Hi:
    Nice post. That is one of the best article and it is very useful information. Good Tools - Thanks sharing me.

    Reply

  34. Marc SwiftNo Gravatar

    You missed Tweepular.com It BLOWS Friendorfollow out of the water.

    Reply

  35. 24SevenNo Gravatar

    Great list - we have 20 over at our site - some listed here and some not - thanks!

    Reply

  36. jks4uscNo Gravatar

    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.

    Reply

  37. AlexNo Gravatar

    Wonderful list..Thanks so much Mani……

    Reply

  38. ScottNo Gravatar

    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/

    Reply

  39. SEO IndiaNo Gravatar

    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.

    Reply

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  42. JacobNo Gravatar

    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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  48. Lynchburg Web CompanyNo Gravatar

    TweetLater will also do automatic following and unfollowing on Twitter.

    Reply

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  51. SpilltoJIllNo Gravatar

    Great list and comments!

    Reply

  52. Jonathan NelsonNo Gravatar

    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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  53. MkcoyNo Gravatar

    Thanks for this great list. Just to point out that Tweet Rank now have an english version up and running.

    Reply

  54. Martin BucklandNo Gravatar

    Thanks for the information. A great resource

    Reply

  55. MihaiNo Gravatar

    great. thnx ! :)

    Reply

  56. Julie Boyd-ElrodNo Gravatar

    Wow, I love these tools. Thanks

    Reply

  57. Jed EnerioNo Gravatar

    I love Huitter and am using it now to update folllowers and non-followers… cool tool… highly recommended.

    Reply

  58. Jed EnerioNo Gravatar

    I love Huitter and am using it now to update folllowers and non-followers… cool tool… highly recommended.

    Reply

  59. Chris RoddeNo Gravatar

    Great post! Thanks for the tips!

    Reply

  60. JenniferNo Gravatar

    What a great blog. I was looking for this information for quite some time. Thanks

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