Is your Twitter account a little bit cluttered? Have you hit the “2000 barrier” and can’t follow new tweeps back until you drop the dead-weight to make room? Ever wonder who you are following who are not tweeting, not following you back, etc?
There’s hope and it’s called Manage Flitter.
What is Manage Flitter?
Manage Flitter is an app (application) that is specifically designed for Twitter housekeeping of this sort. It helps you find you eggs (no profile pic), nofollowbacks, ne’retweeters, and more, but the prior three are just enough to keep you Twitter account tidy.
It’s easy to use and its FREE!
I first heard of Manage Flitter from Rachel Thompson in a book she co-authored called Dollars and Sense. Since it is free after all I decided to try it out. She readily recommends this so I second her recommendation on this app because I use it. It reduces the amount of work you have to do by going through thousands and thousands of tweeps and looking at their timelines and trying to decipher if they are following you back or not.
You can be done with this work in as little as a few clicks and a few seconds if you keep it up weekly (Rachel’s recommendation) and are not choosy on who you want to keep (i.e. book reviewers, celebrities, mainstream publishers, etc). Totally up to you.
How to Use Manage Flitter
- Go to Manage Flitter. Want to go now? Click Here
- Log in with your Twitter information. Note: Manage Flitter is a secure site so no one will hack you, and it doesn’t save your information.
- You will go to the Twitter “Authorize App” page and click the button to authorize it.
- It will go back to Manage Flitter and it will take a few seconds to go through your tweeps. Once you go to the dashboard you are ready to go.
- Go to each tab you wish to go and either select all or check the tweeps you want to unfollow and click the unfollow button.
- If you want to select all, but wish to keep your “popular” or “verified” you can keep them by clicking on the appropriate button and they will be unselected.
- Voila! You’re done! Just come back when you need to do more Twitter-keeping!
Note: Manage Flitter has a function to tweet how many tweeps you unfollowed or tweet out who used the app to unfollow you, etc. I don’t know why they have this. DO NOT DO THIS!!!!! You will be come a Twitter jerk (can’t say douche; Rachel took that one :P) and no one will want to be your friend. It won’t work out the way you think it will.
It is 100% guaranteed to blow up in your face. The person who unfollowed you may follow you back later. They won’t if you nark on them in this way. Don’t make their mind up for them! It’s just Twitter. It isn’t like they told the whole world your most personal secret and then dumped you!
Thanks for including me in your post, sweet. I do love ManageFlitter and recommend it frequently. They’re great to work with and if you manage multiple accounts, you can choose their paid service (a must for me since I do manage multiple author accounts), which is only a few bucks a month.
Terrific review!
Sure no problem! Good info is worth passing along! 😉
Can I start off by saying you are one of my new heores! First a myriad of your tweets spellbind me daily, and now you tackle something that REALLY (for emphasis abiding by #1) matters. I can’t tell you how much more efficient and enjoyable Twitter would be if everyone attempted to follow these guidelines! Thank you for sharing your wisdom, as a writer in high school I appreciate your posts that connect me to ideas,people, & writings etc I typically wouldn’t see!
What bugs me the most (I never check to see who’s unfollowed me, but maybe I will now) are: 1) Those who don’t RT me, when I RT them tons of times, and tweet their blog posts, as well. It woldun’t bother me, except that these people and I share similar topics, so our followers have similar interests; and 2) Those who’re only interested in talking, not having a conversation. That is, like the folks you mention in this post, they want me to follow them (so they’re talking *at* me), but aren’t interested in following me (i.e., hearing what I have to say).Thanks for calling folks on this, Shari.
Give them about a week and if they don’t follow you back unfollow them. RTing is not entitled, but that’s up to you on that
I agree with you! I use tweepi (free ttietwr app) to see who follows me and who isn’t following me. I can find out easily who is following me and who isn’t and when I find that someone who was following me is no longer doing it, I quickly and easily unfollow them just as easily. Thanks to tweepi, I have very few people that I follow who are not following me.
Thanks for sharing. People can go check it out. Manage Flitter is just the most popular and most recommended
to myself, Okay, I just took too long to get back to them and they don’t want to fololw someone who doesn’t fololw back. But it’s even happened when I’ve gone to respond so someone just a day or two later! Bait and switch?I’ve tried not to jump to conclusions. Maybe they’re using one of the apps that dumps people who don’t fololw back and they didn’t consider that there are some people who don’t live on Twitter 24/7. (It usually takes me a day or two to fololw back, sometimes longer if I’m deep into my writing.) I’ll admit that I’ve been busy with my latest novel and haven’t been super active on Twitter lately, so I’ve tried not to take this unfololwing business personally. (Some days it’s easier than others.)
That’s their problem and not yours. Try to give people a week before dumping them. That’s what I an other people do
I agree with you totally, but I don’t have time to work them out! I notcie a lot of marketing types follow me, the social media marketing gurus and I usually don’t follow them back any more. I can’t afford their services! The ones that annoy me are the auto-tweeters. I must have read the same tweet 100 times from one particular person I follow and I don’t know why I haven’t unfollowed yet!
I don’t follow anyone who says they are a ‘guru’. I may be a fantasy writer, but that is one mystical person/creature I don’t believe in. Everyone can learn something. Most of those “auto tweeters” are usually bots or spammers anyway and not real people.
I use http://followerfilter.com/ for Searching User- Tweet RT and Favorite listing and deletion – Unfollower finding an deletion. Even the site is new, it works well!
Site also allows you to see any twitter user’s (included yours) unfollowers, followers and followings without login.
Of course it’s free and unlimited!