Twitter Makes It A Bit Easier To Remove Non-Followers

If you've ever found yourself needing to remove a large number of people you're following on Twitter, until recently the only way you could do so was to visit each profile one at a time.

While Twitter hasn't yet made it possible to remove 20 or 100 in just one click, it has made it a bit easier *FOR SOME OF US*

For instance, for me personally, it doesn't do me much good to follow people in the following categories:

1. Rarely or never updates
2. Disproportionately low or zero Following *OR* Followers. (Exception for dedicated business Twitterers such as Job Boards, Public Service Announcements, etc.)

So, to clean up people you no longer want to follow, at this time:

1. Go to: http://twitter.com/friends?page=1

2. For those people who are following you, you'll see the following options:
Direct message | nudge VincentWright | remove

3. For those people who are NOT following you, won't see either "Direct message" nor "nudge". You'll only see "remove"

Just a little bit to think on: While this is good for removing 1, 5, 10, 20 people per page, you want to make sure that there isn't something of value you'd be missing by removing them.

Thanks!
Vincent Wright
Twitter.com/VincentWright
Linkedin.com/in/VincentWright
www.MyVirtualPowerForum.com

Tags: cleanup, followers, following, non-followers, twitter, twitterpated, vincent wright

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Permalink Reply by Kim Beasley on September 28, 2008 at 11:32am: Hi Vincent,

There is another way for people to see more about the people they follow. Tweeters can go to http://mytweeple.com/ to do this and they can even export their followers.

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Permalink Reply by Vincent Wright on September 28, 2008 at 11:54am: Kim,
It took me a moment to make sure whether or not MyTweeple was something I wanted to follow but, you know? I think I LIKE IT! :-) Thanks, Good Sister! :-)

Keep STRONG, Kim!
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Permalink Reply by Kim Beasley on September 28, 2008 at 12:07pm: I'm glad that you find it helpful. There are many tools that can help you get your Twitter fix on. :) Glad I could be of help to introduce you to another one.

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Permalink Reply by Vincent Wright on September 28, 2008 at 12:10pm: I'm aware of a pretty big bunch of those tools but, for some reason, missed MyTweeps. Hey, I know! Maybe we can compile a list of our favs...???; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kim Beasley on September 28, 2008 at 12:41pm: OK, so I shared my fav Twitter apps on my blog at http://kimbeasley.com/2008/09/05/my-fav-twitter-applications/. I know that there are many others but these are some of the ones that I use the most.

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Permalink Reply by Vincent Wright on September 28, 2008 at 12:45pm: Twitter aside for a moment, please. You new blog is SMOKIN', Kim! I LIKE it! (More than MyTweeps which I was just getting excited about! (And, no, I haven't had too much coffee, either! :-) ); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kim Beasley on September 28, 2008 at 1:03pm: Thanks for the compliments. Please feel free to leave a comment with your kudos. :)

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