Six Twitter Follow management Tools you need
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Twitter tools
Twitter has certainly revolutionized the lives of millions of people and adds to the internet addiction. Bloggers display the twitter followers count, just like they flaunt their feed subscriber count. While adding more and more people to your twitter list of followers is easy, there are a few twitter follow tools which make twitterland a delight.
Here is a list of 6 good twitter follow management tools that you may like. I have listed them in no particular order, but reviewed each tool with pros and cons. If you know good alternatives or other tools, please spare a few seconds to let me know via comments or twitter or my contact form.
1. Friend or Follow
Friend or follow is a cool twitter follow management tool, which gives you the list of people
- That you follow, who don’t follow you back
- That are following you, but you are not
- Mutually following people
Such a list of twitter followers and following can be greatly helpful if you want to identity your friends who are following you, but you are not following them.
Friend or - follow management
Cool :
- Lists followers, following, and the intersection of both.
- Web tool, and hence platform independent.
- No signing in required.
Cons :
- None
twitter karma is another tool doing the same thing, but requires your user name and password.
2. Twubble
twubble suggests followers
If you are already following hundreds of people, this tool is not great, But if you are looking for new followers, this tool is a boon. Twubble gives you a recommendation of twitters, based on your existing twitter followers. Just give twibble a shot, and it picks up twitters who are being followed by your friends and hence possibly of your interest. Find new friends on twitter using Twubble.
Cool :
- Suggests more friends, based on your existing friends.
- Not required to sing in.
Cons :
- The algorithm can get better.
3. Qwitter
qwitter for unfollow notice
Losing your followers is one last thing you want to do on twitter. Even worse could be not knowing you lost them. Qwitter is one service that comes to your rescue. Qwitter keeps track of twitter handler and drops you an email, when one of your followers unfollows you. To add some spice, it also attaches the last tweet you made, which possibly could have triggered the unfollow (though the chances are faint)
Cool :
- Sends you email when somebody unfollows you
- No password required, since your followers list is accessible by others.
- You wont miss your twitter interface, and is platform independent (web)
Cons :
- Just the one feature.
- The latest tweet probability is thin.
4. Twalala
twalala to mute/filter tweets
Twalala is a Web interface for twitter, so ideally kind of reinventing the wheel. The only good feature is that you can mute a person, in sense that the spammer’s tweets no longer are present in the timeline. You can mute a person in single click. A couple of minutes of using twalala, we were impressed to see more features like filter using keyword. This interface could ideally help when the same news gets repeated over and again. For instance, you knew Obama won the elections, but everybody tweets the same message over and again.
Cool :
- Mute a person
- Filter by keywords (i read enough about “chrome”, block tweets containing the word “chrome” )
- Web interface, and hence platform independent.
Cons :
- You will miss your interface, say thwirl, twitterific
- Trust factor. You are required to sign in. (no pagerank and very bad alexa rank)
5. Twitterless
twitterless for graphs, maps
You always want to keep track of your followers. Twitterless is one service that notifies you when somebody stops following you, besides doing other interesting things. Twitterless also gives you a graph of number of followers against time, which helps you visualize increase or decrease of followers. Another less useful, yet fancy feature is the map of your followers. I should call twitterless was started with a different mission and now that so many features are implemented, the name is not too coherent. Twitterless also lets you filter your followers and search their tweets. Twitterless also lets you autofollow and autoblock users. A bunch of features, certainly a site to bookmark.
Cool :
- Auto follow, auto block
- Unfollow notice
- Graph of followers against time
- Map of followers
- Filter and search
- tweet from browser address bar
- No sign in required
- Platform independent
Cons :
- Sign in requires a key.
- Could possibly be monetized in future.
6. TweetLater
Catching up with new followers and dropping a welcome message can mean good relationship management. TweetLater is a wonderful service, that offers four excellent features.
tweetlater - Auto welcome, auto follow
(i) Auto welcome message
When you get new followers, this feature automatically drops a direct message or a tweet in your public timline, welcoming your new followers. The message is customizable by the user.
(ii) Auto Follow
Auto follow everybody who follows. Ever wondered how Barack Obama managed to follow that many people?
(iii) Auto Digest
Compiles the bunch of tweets that are replied to you and sends them to your email as a digest.
(iv) Scheduled tweets
This feature will allow users to schedule their tweets in advance. Still in the oven and should be released soon.
TweetLater can really make an impact on your twitter profile, and i strongly suggest you to try it.
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23 Comments on this post
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kmyoforum said:
thanks, i was looking for one tool like twitterlater. The best thing about this service is the auto welcome message. Really good. I voted for them in the contest at mashable.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:41 am -
ram sundar said:
can u not find a better picture for tweet later. that is one amazing tool and you are giving a improper picture here.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:52 am -
PlaneMad said:
great list, real helpful
November 17th, 2008 at 6:24 am -
Brian Longest said:
I missed some of those tools when I was researching, thanks. I had made a list of 40 and now it is much larger, I will add some that you found and I did not. Here is my list http://www.longest.com/2008/10/28/top-twitter-tools/
By the way, what “leave a comment” plugin is this? It’s very cool.
Thanks,
BrianNovember 17th, 2008 at 7:06 am -
TJ Sondermann said:
Hey. Wanted to thank you for mentioning twalala (I’m on the dev team) and to let your readers know that we’re still in very early development.
Which means that we’re currently working toward the goal of feature parity with an eye toward creating a fully-featured web-client.
I’d be keenly interested to get feedback from your readers, as we are always looking for ways to improve twalala. Thanks again.
November 17th, 2008 at 7:07 am -
admin said:
@ , (what a name is this)
tweetlater actually was built to schedule tweets, but they built more powerful tools@ ram sundar -
i dont have a key yet. Ll try and post a better picture. The inner pages of the site is plain white..@planemad
I guess we met at barcamp bangalore. nice to see you here and thanks for the comment.November 17th, 2008 at 7:17 am -
admin said:
@ brian
that was indeed a good list, nice compilation.
This plugin is called commentluv.. try it, its good.November 17th, 2008 at 7:19 am -
admin said:
@ TJ Sondermann
Really nice to see your comment here. You can follow up this post’s comments to see the user’s reactions. I would really be happy if i can send some traffic tonight.. watch out..
November 17th, 2008 at 7:21 am -
Brian Longest said:
I guess I should have seen the “commentluv” button on the bottom, maybe if I had my first cup of coffee I would have noticed.
By the way, how did you get the nice look and feel, along with the subscription box in the upper right, very cool. Is this theme related?
thanks
November 17th, 2008 at 8:31 am -
radhu said:
this is indeed a gr8 list of twitter.thanks for your post.
radhu’s last blog post..Six Twitter Follow management Tools you need
November 18th, 2008 at 3:16 am -
admin said:
@radhu
Thanks for dropping by, you got a good design on your blog..
November 21st, 2008 at 9:42 pm -
Divya said:
What about Mr.tweet (http://mrtweet.net)? It also does something similar to Twuble.
December 6th, 2008 at 3:42 am -
admin said:
@ divya
Mr tweet is so boring, in the sense that it does not give you instant results. There are other tools which can do the job instantly like the ones listed in this article.
December 10th, 2008 at 10:46 pm -
Kate Klingensmith said:
I love Friend or Follow – this is just what I was looking for!
I would add to this list:
1) Tweetstats – generates graphs of your tweeting tendencies by month, day, and time, as well as info about who you @reply to most
2) Twitterholic – shows top user stats
3) Tweetburner – shortens a URL and then tracks clicks on it.Kate Klingensmith’s last blog post..Mobile Phones Cause Security Issues?
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:23 pm -
admin said:
@kate
nice tools, but we have focused on follow management tools alone. thanks for tweetstats, that looks nice.
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 pm -
djchuang said:
Now there’s also http://tweetbuddy.com and its prune or prune lite functions
djchuang’s last blog post..church conference out in the sticks
February 21st, 2009 at 5:16 am -
Chris said:
I use most of these free tools.
This tool is a must
http://www.dossy.org/twitterkarmaThe best paid ($165.00) tool I have seen (a TON of features):
http://www.getmoretwitterfriends.com
** Huge time saver and it tracks all follows/unfollows so you never refollow.Chris
Proud owner of 3 sticky kidsMay 13th, 2009 at 1:08 am -
Logan Paulson said:
Good list with good descriptions of each tool. It has been surprisingly hard to find a good way to manage the followers/following lists, since Twitter’s own site is terrible at this!
Logan Paulson’s last blog post..Membership Site Mastermind – Closing Tonight!
May 13th, 2009 at 9:30 pm -
http://twitter.com/PrayMaddyMcCann said:
Thanks For The Tips!
I’ll check all of them out, but I mostly use them to follow back people!
So I’ll follow you back within a few hours! Just follow me first at:
http://twitter.com/PrayMaddyMcCannFebruary 1st, 2010 at 5:31 am -
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August 1st, 2010 at 12:50 pm -
Rob said:
Great list, don’t forget TwitterLoader.Net! Quick, easy and free way to mass follow users based on keyword searches!
August 7th, 2010 at 11:52 am
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