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Thanks to a tip on twitter from L Stephen Cleary who mentioned that I should check out ManageTwitter.com which is a twitter tool that lets you process and cleanup who your following on Twitter.  The tool itself makes many API calls to collect information about all of your followers, so if you don’t have many API calls left or you have tens of thousands of people you are following, you will get an error when signing in that there are not enough API calls to query all of the people you are following with your twitter account.

Once you get into the system if it can handle your twitter profile you are presented with a wide range of options which include being able to see accounts that are inactive (haven’t tweeted in 30 days), Talkative, Quiet (tweet only 1x per day or less) and more.   The tool can process and unfollow up to 100 accounts at a time and has Select All buttons currently.  Now, this select all is a violation of Twitters ToS and it won’t be long before the application developer will have to remove it.  In fact, I didn’t push how many API calls per day this application can actually make, but the application could be violating Twitter Terms of Service multiple times so I don’t know how long it will exist in its current state.

It isn’t instantaneous, but it does work fairly well and quickly.  I was able to unfollow hundreds of inactive accounts that haven’t tweeted in 30 days or more with only 3 clicks.    So this tool is highly recommended for cleaning up inactive accounts from your “following list” as well as if you just want to stop following people who aren’t reciprocating so you can follow others (in case you reach your following cap).  The tool does give you the ability to deselect “verified” accounts so that you can make sure you still follow celebrities and major company accounts on twitter when doing bulk unfollowing which is a plus.

The JustUnfollow tool is simpler, and allows you to unfollow individual accounts more easily.  It also makes far fewer API calls because it only grabs the first X amount of accounts, and only processes more as you click “See More”.

I think the ManageTwitter.com tool is useful for doing bulk unfollows, but it will not stay in its current form for much longer due to violating the Twitter ToS.  I would suggest you make use of the tool quickly to cleanup your following list before you have to start manually unfollowing users one at a time again.

-Dragon Blogger

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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:

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.

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The Huitter.com website and Mutuality has been shut down apparently, my latest recommendation if you are looking to bulk unfollow twitter users is to check out my review of JustUnfollow.com.

JustUnfollow is a tool that allows you to quickly and easily unfollow twitter followers at a rate of up to 50 users a day, though they will increase to 100 unfollows per day soon.

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Mutality is a very simple Twitter web application, all you need to do is log into the application with your twitter ID and password and it will automatically unfollow everyone who is not following you. This tool has been proven to work even with accounts with more than ten thousand twitter followers, mutuality is more efficient and faster than any other Twitter application for bulk unfollowing users that I have found.

What it doesn’t do is bulk follow people who are following you, I wish it would do that as well, I am still trying to find the best application to accomplish this. I suggest you all give “mutuality” a try and see how it works.

Update: Due to Mutuality2 using OATH access to Twitter, I can no longer successfully iFrame the application in my website, so if you want to test out and use this service, click on the image below.

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I have been addicted to Twitter lately and foresee me using the social tool for a long time.  I have received many tips and many applications over the past few days and have played with a few of them that I liked.  I am posting a review on one of them here.

• This is a review of Twitter Karma

The top of the screen shows you the total number of people following you as well as how many are “Mutual Friends” where you joint follow each other.  It also lists how many “Only Followers” where they are following you but you are not following them.

This site is fantastic for people who want to automatically follow people who are following you.  You can access this site and log in, you can easily see who you are following and who is following you.  “They Follow You” is marked in RED, “You Follow Them” is marked in GREEN.
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If you see people that are following you but you don’t see that you are following them, you can choose to follow them by  check marking them and choosing “Bulk Follow” at the bottom of the page.  Or better yet, select “Check All” and then click “Bulk Follow” and you will automatically follow everyone who follows you.

You can also Bulk UnFollow People, by selecting or mass unfollow everyone if you want to build your follow list over from scratch.

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I highly recommend Twitter Karma for checking your followers and who you are following, as well as mass following anybody who follows you.

-Dragon Blogger

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