Helpful Twitter tools to manage your tweeps
Posted by Peter Nun on Thu, Mar 04, 2010 @ 02:47 PM
Okay, so you’ve got your Twitter account and you’ve been tweeting. People are following you and you’re following some back, as well as following people of interest to you (or your business). Quickly you begin following so many people it becomes hard to keep up. You’re missing interesting or important tweets and the ones you do read are less interesting than you remember.
Twitter itself doesn’t have the tools to gauge which Tweeps are most important to you, so here’s a list of some that should help:
Tweetcloud
Tweetcloud helps you determine what a person is tweeting about—it generates a tag cloud of their tweets. If the content they’re tweeting about is something that you don’t care for, maybe you shouldn’t be following them.
Twitter Grader
Twitter Grader ranks twitter users based things like the number of followers, number of updates and recency of updates. You can use Twitter Grader to determine how engaged the people you’re following are. You can also go as far as analyzing a users’ followers and the people they’re following.
Friend or Follow
Friend or Follow is a great tool that quickly helps you identify who you’re following but isn’t following you back, who your fans are (people who follow you but you don’t follow back), and who your friends are (people you have a mutual follow/follow back relationship with).
Nest.Unclutterer
Nest.Unclutterer will automatically remove users who are following a very high number of people, or those users who have been inactive for a given period of time. You’re able to set up what those terms actually are (eg. don’t follow anyone following more than 1000 users—how engaged are they really?) and you can also keep a ‘white list’ of users exempt from removal. It’s a great tool to ensure that the people you are following are users you want to associate and interact with.
Tweepler
Tweepler is an easy way of processing your new Twitter followers—view a list of new followers and in one click you can either follow them back or ignore them completely reducing clutter.
Once you’ve cleaned up the list of people you follow, you may want to be more shrewd in choosing people you want to follow in the future. Here are some tools that may help you:
Twellow
Twellow is a directory of public Twitter accounts with plenty of categories and search features to help you find people that are of interest to you or your business. You can even use their TwellowHood feature to find people who are local to you.
Listorious
Listorious is an easy-to-use tool that posts the most popular Twitter lists for any given category. You can also search for lists and individual Tweeps, and you can choose to follow the list you like, or the individuals who are doing the tweeting. You can also use Listorious to publish your own lists and increase your exposure.
Looking at all of the above tools you may notice a common thread among them all—it’s all about the content of your friends’ and followers’ tweets. So keep that in mind the next time you tweet something.