Posts Tagged ‘followers’



Twitter Hack – How to Get Rid of Inactive Followers!

April 27th, 2009

Using Twitter-friends.com, you can easily find out which of your followers “never” use Twitter.   You can unfollow those inactive followers and it makes sense, they are probably not twittering all that much anyways.  Simply log-in to Twitter-friends.com and click on “Inactive” tab to see which of your followers are the most inactive.

My goal was to unfollow anybody who hadn’t updated in x days. I decided that 30 days was a reasonable number. If you haven’t updated in a month, chances are that account has been abandoned, or you’ve been forced to leave Twitter for other reasons.

I also felt this period covered me for folk who were on holiday, moving home, or away from Twitter for some reason beyond their control but would return in the future.

via twittercism

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Twitter Hack – How to Deal with Twitter Spammers!

April 7th, 2009

Okay, you’ve probably noticed that some Twitters who follow you are “pure” spammers.  For example, they have “zero” updates with hundreds of followers.

I guess it’s acceptable to automate direct messages but sometimes you really need to filter out the good Twitters from pure spammers.

Here’s a couple great tips I found over at Twittercism on how to deal with there Twitter spammers:

1. Report any suspicious spam activity to @spam@spam is Twitter’s spam handling department.

2. Block them, use that “Block” button to block the spammer, this will also send a “red flag” to the Twitter spam handling department.

There a couple more tips but I will let you simply head over to Twittercism to check them out if you must.