4 Twitter Account Cleaners

Twitter is great, but if you automatically follow everyone who follows you, you soon end up with a lot of questionable material in your timeline. To keep things clean and keep Twitter useful, you need to clean up your followers and get rid of Twitter spam. Here are four tools that help you to do just that.

The Twitter Tools

TweetBuddy Prune

TweetBuddy Prune takes a couple of minutes to segment your Twitter followers. You can then see those you are following, those who are following you and those where the appreciation is mutual. To follow or unfollow anyone you have to click on a button. One limitation is that there are no mass follow or unfollow tools, which makes this useful only for Twitter accounts with small follower counts. Click any part of the table which lists your followers and it takes you to the main Twitter site, which means you don’t really gain a lot by using this tool.

My Cleenr

My Cleenr has one severe limitation – it only works with accounts following 700 people or less. If you are able to use it (you will have to type in your username and password rather than using OAuth) then in less than a minute you get a list of your followers sorted by last update date. Delete them by clicking on a button – you don’t get second chances, so you’d better be sure that’s what you really want to do. MyCleenr was one of the quickest of the Twitter tools I tested.

Tweepular

Tweepular is a bright, colorful follower management tool. Intended primarily for Twitter users to keep track of those who want to keep their following in sync with their followers, it offers one useful feature for Twitter account cleaners – the ‘last updated’ search. Click on a button to see a list of your followers sorted by last update and you will soon find out which follower accounts are dormant. You can see people’s profile and last tweet by hovering over their name, which will help with your decision. Tweepular allows mass following and unfollowing, which is useful for large accounts.

TwitIn

TwitIn was somewhat temperamental and I had to reauthorize it a couple of times during the process. It offers you the option to Flush (unfollow those not following you), Grow (find new people to follow) or Reciprocate (follow people already following you). What’s good about TwitIn is that you can see people’s bios and last tweets on the TwitIn page before making a decision.

There are buttons at the top of the follower listings which are appropriate to the section you are in, allowing you to flush and block, reciprocate or lock (presumably so you never have to deal with that user again). The application only loads a few of your followers at a time, so you will need to press the ‘more’ button to manage them all.

Other interesting features of TwitIn include stats, the ability to cross-follow (find users followed by another user and follow them too), and feed management. However, it seems slower than many other online Twitter tools.

Find out about four more Twitter cleaning tools tested in next week’s post.

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall from Get Paid To Write Online
Posted on November 19th, 2009 and filed under Social Media
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