Comments on: Why It Pays To Purge – When and How to Unfollow

By: Lil' Peekr

Lil' Peekr — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:17:22 +0000

I have to do the same thing with my accounts. I’ve used a few different tools, and some are better than others. I like http://mytweeple.com and I think it may be the best and I’ll start with it the next time I clean-up an account.

Learn more about it here…
http://oneforty.com/item/my-tweeple

By: Syl Wilson

Syl Wilson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:20:53 +0000

I know – isn’t it a shame that they disabled the twitter karma bulk unfollow feature? Is there any other service that we can use? I adored that feature and fell in love with your post so much so that I tweeted and told everyone! (Maybe that is why they disabled it) LOL!

By: Meg Turner

Meg Turner — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:08:14 +0000

Well I just went to Your Twitter Karma, and it says, “On January 15, 2010, Twitter instructed us to remove the “bulk unfollow” capability of Twitter Karma as it has been determined to violate their Automation Rules and Best Practices.”

By: Meg Turner

Meg Turner — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:48:04 +0000

I know I should probably do this. Not b/c I have even close to 2000 people I follow but b/c apparently I have an anal obsession to read EVERYone I follow. I know this is not a good use of my time, but if I get behind on reading my tweet feed on seesmic, I feel I like I might be missing something! It’s driving me crazy. Does anyone else ever feel like this? Sometimes I feel like I need a twitter support group. Ha!

By: Trish

Trish — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:48:38 +0000

I’m still trying to find a good service to find out who is unfollowing me. Seems like a have one follow and one leave a day for the past couple weeks. Twitterless is not responding to my emails (I am following them) and Goodbye Buddy has been shoddy.

Any other recs? Thanks!

By: Syl Wilson

Syl Wilson — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:48:52 +0000

Great article, and thank you for the steps to do this, I agree with Christian Russel though, It’s not that difficult to understand whats happening. I guess the “noise” is pleasant to Generation Y as we tend to do 10 different things at once. ie; watch the news, sit on laptop, talk on the phone, all while ordering a pizza online.

So…it’s all in what’s important to you. I do appreciate this though. I do like to get rid of folks who are not following me. So THANKS! Look forward to your tweets and articles!

By: janelle

janelle — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:58:53 +0000

THANKS! Am a new tweeter, so am digging for good uses & best practices. Salute!

By: Mark Ramskill

Mark Ramskill — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:43:37 +0000

My post is more aimed at the individual than a business.

However, my points still stand for those using Twitter for their business. It all comes down to how useful your account still is to you when you reaching a certain threshold.

Even with the use of groups in Seesmic I personally still struggled with keeping up with (and classifying into groups) those i followed and finding the quality.

I find little point in being deluged with Tweets that have little or no value to me. I would rather having a trickle of useful, informative, humorous or engaging Tweets, that I can easily group and refer back to.

Noise to me is just that – noise. And a noise means a headache

Thanks for all of your comments so far. Remember, these are just my own personal opinions, that relate to how I use Twitter.

Mark

By: Tanya Lee

Tanya Lee — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:23:51 +0000

I just think this is a bad idea, especially for a business to do. I read a lot of these posts lately about cutting out a lot of people that you follow. Seth Simonds did a well written one a month or so ago, as well. This may work for the individual, but I don’t think it’s smart for any business to do. Unfollowing people that don’t follow you back is one thing, but I just don’t get this whole theory of the mass unfollow.

Personally, I relate more to the gentleman above who said he likes the noise, I agree, keeps it interesting to me as well. I use Tweetdeck a lot and don’t have anyone broken into a list. My lists on Twitter were created more to help others that may be interested in that topic, than for me to exclude anyone. All of that said, I look at people who follow over 10,000 people and really wonder how they do it.

By: Cynthia Fox-Giddens

Cynthia Fox-Giddens — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:13:27 +0000

I am new to Twitter, but have already unfollowed some people. They probably did me too, but that’s fine. I am enjoying the dialogue and RTs I sometimes get. I am not looking for thousands of followers, just too unmanageable in my opinion. Great post!