Twitter spring cleaning with the top 5 Twitter friend cleansing tools

Posted: February 26th, 2010 | Author: Chris Norton | Filed under: Cleansing tools, Twitter Apps, Twitter Tool | Tags: Twitter app, Twitter Tool | No Comments »

This week there was news of a new tool out called justunfollow.com, which is a really simple Twitter friend cleansing tool. Basically you log-in with the usual Twitter OAuth authentication and then you click show non-followers. It’s quite responsive and brings you back with a list of people that are not following you back. If you wish you can then unfollow them there and then – cleansing your friends. 

I think this is one of the easiest unfollow tools I have used – so it would go down as number one but I thought I would also share some other tools which are useful for managing your friends.

 

2. www.refollow.com – this is a powerful Twitter management tool which we have talked about before. It is really useful and has some great features. The bulk unfollow feature was almost removed recently due to Twitter making a request but that seems to have been sorted now.

 

3. Nestunclutterer – This is a slick little app and you can white list friends that don’t follow you back that you want to follow.

 

4. Friendorfollow – you don’t log-in using the Twitter OAuth authentication with this but it seems a little less responsive than some of the others. It provides you with your background (see below) and all of the people that aren’t following you back. If you hover over their images it gives you their statistics.

5. unTweeps.com, we have covered this one on the blog before. Here is a useful Twitter tool which can be a little slow to use but is quite a good idea. After logging in (with your Twitter account), enter the number of days in the past you want to check. If you enter 30, then anyone who hasn’t updated their Twitter status (tweeted) in the past 30 days will be shown on a list. You can then unfollow them as you wish. This also has a whitelisting option for your friends.

6. Twitter Karma – This was a really useful tool for managing your Twitter friends but in January Twitter asked them to remove its bulk unfollow feature which now kind of makes it redundant (hence the position). We hope the developers apply to Twitter to make a few amends and get that feature back as it was pretty useful.

Do you have a Twitter friend cleansing tool to share? Let us know about it!

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