At some point in time, everyone who becomes a “Power Twitter User” bemoans the fact that it’s hard to follow too many people, or keep up with the emails telling us who’s following us. Twitter’s site interface doesn’t make checking your followers or adding/removing followees very easy or intuitive.
Introducing Buzzom, which uses Twitter’s API to make it all super easy to manage your follower/following list at lightning speed.
There are three things you can do at Buzzom:
- Flush. You can unfollow people en masse simply by checking the boxes and clicking “Flush”.
- Grow. You can follow new people, again by checking boxes and clicking. (I’m a teeny bit nervous about this one when the spammers find it, but still…)
- Reciprocate. This one tells you who’s following you, that you’re not following, and you guessed it, allows you to follow back with checkboxes and a button.
All three sections also have what’s called “Lock”. This means, on the Flush page, if you “Lock” someone, you’ll prevent them from showing up on the Flush list again. It essentially is saying “I don’t ever want to flush that person, so stop asking me!”
Here’s a clipped screenshot of the “Grow” section:
If you take a look at the right sidebar, there’s also a section where you can send out an instant tweet. It’s pre-filled with a plug for buzzom, but if you really wanted to, you could tweet anything from there.
It also features numbers under some headings:
Stars: This means number of people who you are following but they are not following you back.
Friends: This is the number of people you are following, who are following you back.
Fans: This means number of people who are following you but you are not following them back.
All in all, yes, Buzzom does require your username and password in order to work, however I see it as a pretty neat tool to help manage and grow your Twitter account follower/following lists!
Have you tried it? What do you think?
@andrewkeir
Your not kidding about spammers finding that Grow feature…
Expect to see some huge following numbers in the near future
@entwipreneur
I just gave this a try. Nice tool. Thanks for the post.
@thelostagency
Great little toy, i think i might have the perfect campaign for it coming up, thank you
@thelostagency
hmm… its a very fast application, but the flush list seems to show most of your most active and favourite followers, so not a perfect way to cull your list, if you want to have millions of followers and following, it could be useful otherwise not suitable for smaller accounts.
@philipnowak
I’ll have to check it out. Sounds pretty interesting. Another great resource that I have used is Tweepular. I think it works pretty well.
@leplan
Thanks Darren for this wonderful review. Appreciate you giving your time
Buzzom does have 0Auth implemented and while login it takes to Twitter. The tool does not ask or saves for userid and password.
@leplan
Hi Bhupendra – I wrote the review… See my name up there in lights? LOL
Nice to know that Buzzom uses 0Auth.
Hi David – It’s actually better to start using when you’re smaller.
Go to the flush list, and check the boxes next to those you don’t want to have show up in the flush list again (because you’re not intending to unfollow) and click on “Lock”. Then refresh the list, and you’ll never see them in that list again.
Buzzom doesn’t just show “most of your most active and favourite followers” – it shows ALL you follow and ALL who follow you. Also gives suggestions on people you might be interested in following.
@thelostagency
@Lara thank you, i agree its a great tool to use to build a list of related people to follow, as it did help me clear out some of the original people i was following just for the sake of numbers, but who never really tweet much or have any relevance anymore.
@steveborgman
I am finding this tool to be very helpful. Thanks for your review. My list is indebted to you
@Mandy_Vavrinak
I love this tool… find it cathartic RE: Flush and helpful RE: Grow & Reciprocate. Helps me focus my tweet stream (getting rather large and unwieldy) back to those who interact and share content I find valuable. Thanks for giving it a review and audience.
@jayphilips
I agree, this is one of the best tools. I like the fact that it shows the persons bio & last tweet. I use it to remove the people I’m following that followed me then just dropped after, guess they wanted to increase their counts.
@artseejodee
Great useful tool! Thanks for sharing
Good stuff.
@lukefrombuzzle
These tools are always handy, especially when you get a large following, and start to lose sleep that there may be followers out there who hate you because you have not followed them back! Imagine if there was a reciprocity rating i.e. I REALLY want you to follow me back? Also, would be great if the bio was shown with the twitter id so we could get a better idea WHO the person is you are about to flush or follow??? Thanks Lara, nice find!
@leplan
Thanks for covering Buzzom.com. I represent Buzzom development team, and am in Twitter as leplan.
Buzzom is now available in many international languages including German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, Bengoli. We will be continuously working to make it big, and will try to serve our users.
If you have any comments regarding the side, or have idea of some feature in you mind; please send it to me. Would love to hear from you.
We are soon coming up with Buzzom Desktop, and this will the first Twitter Client with SPAM Control. Hoping same love for the desktop too.
Thanks again for covering us.
Bhupendra
@UnMarketing
If these guys, or anyone else, could develop an app that allows you to keep following anyone you’ve ever replied/tweeted/retweeted or vice versa and rop everyone else, I would pay a pretty penny
@rajanshu
Hi,
Buzzom, the No 1 Twitter Account Management Service has brought the Release Candidate of Buzzom Desktop up today. It is available at http://www.buzzom.com/BuzzomLab
This is the first Twitter Desktop Client with SPAM Control features.
More features:
1. Hide users who are spamming with too many or useless tweets without unfollowing them.
2. Get updates on what the twitter elites like GuyKawasaki, BBC etc. are saying without following them.
3. Configure your buddy list and be in touch with them by viewing only their tweets.
4. Find news and people using keyword Search for tweets, location and biography.
5. Auto shorten your long URLs when they’re sent using http://nxy.in 6. Drag-drop video and pictures to auto upload and tweet about them.
7. Choose how you want to see your tweets, by auto refresh or manual refresh.
@commentshop
the best tool there on the web….
@ufathom
Its good, but I find at times it can be relative slow and unreliable. In addition it doesn’t allow you to Tweet and shorten links with the same tool. I ended building 3VU http://3.vu to remove the barriers to a truly useful social application. Replacing Buzzom & Bit.ly at the same time
I built it for my own marketing, but anyone is free to check it out (I love feedback). Cheers until next time. MacKenzie Brown
@etllc
Buzzom is back up again
@xdny
Does anyone know how I can pinpoint and lock a specific user I’m following? Especially if they’re following me back, I don’t know how to do that! I need to figure this out…