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I was contacted by the creator of JustUnfollow.com to review their site and provide my thoughts and opinions of the service which helps you cleanup who your following on twitter. The Huitter Mutuality tool I used to use stopped working in recent months with the site completely going down so I was interested in a new tool to manage and cleanup who I was following on Twitter.
JustUnfollow is easy to use, you just hit the site and sign in with a Twitter Oath Token to see the list of people you are following who are not following you in return. You can very quickly and easily unfollow people and it unfollows them instantly.
I tested and confirmed by doing 50 unfollows in less than 1 minute. I checked to see how many followers before I started using the service and directly compared right after using the service:
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The service connects to Twitter incredibly fast and is one of the fastest tools I have ever used to unfollow users who were not following me. However, it has a few limitations and some of these are deliberate for the author wants to stay in compliance with Twitter ToS. Currently the tool requires that you manually click “unfollow” for each person that you want to unfollow and though it does the actual action very quickly this still is 50 clicks.
Secondly, there is a current limit of 50 unfollows in any 24 hour period and you reach this limit very rapidly if are trying to unfollow a massive amount of accounts, which displays a popup like this:
In Summary:
This is the best tool I have found to help you manage the users you are following on twitter so you can clean up your follow list. It is completely free and is very fast to run through and unfollow 50 users in a day and in a week you can trim your following by 350 users if you remember to do it 7 days in a row. The developer also informed me that they plan to increase the daily unfollow limit to 100 which would also allow you to unfollow 700 accounts per week which will make it even more useful and faster.
I think the tool could use a “check all” and just auto unfollow the first 50 or 100 people checked, but I think the manual “unfollow” is what is required to stay within Twitters Terms of Service as I stated earlier. So even though it is manual it still is very fast, and the account unfollows reflect on Twitter immediately. Twitter Karma used to take quite a while to reflect when you did unfollowing with that service.
I highly recommend Just Unfollow if you are looking to trim up your list of people who you are following, it is the best pseudo Twitter bulk unfollow tool I have found.
-Dragon Blogger
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March 14th, 2010 at 7:10 am
this is worth looking into thanks.
i had a question? your commentluv how did you check it off? mine isn’t. help
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March 14th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Looks promising. Generally, I don’t trust a lot of the Unfollow tools. I’ve seen others that give misleading information.
Looking through my list of people that I’m following that are not following me back, I’m finding that most of them are people that I am deliberately following. On the other hand, I find that the people that are following me outnumber the people I’m following by about 10%
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March 24th, 2010 at 7:56 am
I’m with Aldon here regarding unfollow tools, however I do have to applaud Justin for your effort in reviewing this app. It’s a matter of preference and some people can benefit from this trimming process. Thanks for sharing this.
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March 14th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
I’ve recently invested in some software to automate find new people to follow on twitter as well as unfollow users for whatever reason. Actually, i bought the program after finding out huitter wasn’t working anymore and there were no other decent alternatives. This would have came in handy a couple months back, looks nice.
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March 14th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Do you offer your software to others? What is the website, I will check it out?
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March 15th, 2010 at 3:51 am
I used UnfollowAll (UnfollowAll.com) – which allowed me to unfollow around 5k users in ten minutes as I was tired of all the irrelevant tweets. JustUnfollow looks good as it shows the individual users, but the limit is way too low.
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March 15th, 2010 at 7:39 am
Does this tool unfollow everyone your following, including people who are following you? It looks like overkill, as some accounts I follow on purpose.
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March 17th, 2010 at 10:02 am
[...] those who don’t follow you back. To streamline that process, Dragon Blogger recommends you use JustUnfollow. It’s a simple service that works, but it is limited to 50 unfollows per [...]
March 19th, 2010 at 2:09 am
Oh! its safe too! it won’t allow you to unfollow more than 50 people a day? Great! Certainly going to visit it.
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March 19th, 2010 at 11:35 am
How do you get companies coming to you so often? If I may ask.
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March 23rd, 2010 at 11:38 pm
That’s a good tool if all you’re concerned about is to unfollow those users who don’t reciprocate. What I’m more concerned about these days is to unfollow people who I feel have no connection with.
Yes, when I started with Twitter I followed everyone who added me. Big mistake. Now, I’m trimming it to manageable level. I’ve unfollowed over 1K people. And I make it a routine to unfollow people whose tweets I find irrelevant.
I still add new people, but I’m more discriminating.
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March 23rd, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Right, I told the developer to add a sort on the columns. You will often want to unfollow people who have virtually no followers themselves as you know they are likely to be spam bots. This would make it easier to pick and choose who you want to unfollow.
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March 24th, 2010 at 8:33 am
Remember, this tool is not automated, it won’t automatically unfollow people, you have to check mark who you want to unfollow. So you have full control, it won’t unfollow without you seeing those accounts and deliberating making the decision to unfollow them. It will be much more beneficial when you can sort by number of followers as well.
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April 10th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Hi All,
I’ve implemented the most requested feature of the many that I keep getting. You can now hit the ‘Show Fans’ button and see all your fans (users who are following you but are not followed back by you).
Using this feature you can follow back your new followers. Since you have the option to choose whom to follow, you can be sure that you end up following only legitimate user
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April 10th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
And Justin, this is for you. I’ve included a link to this article from the ‘Press’ page of JustUnfollow. And the fact that JustUnfollow is a PR 5 site now, I hope you get some good link juice because of it
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April 11th, 2010 at 8:20 am
Thank you sir, I will do a follow up article on the new features.
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April 13th, 2010 at 8:40 am
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