Twitter Optimization Tools; Clean Up Your Friends and Followers

How time flies! In 2006, the Twitter concept originated from one of the most successful brainstorming sessions in our time. Employees of Odeo, a podcast company, held a daylong brainstorming session. The idea was to provide the ability for one individual to communicate to a small group by SMS.

Fast forward four years and Twitter has grown to over 100 million users. With so many users, we need a few good tools to optimize and streamline our friends and followers. Having your uninteresting or spammy tweets in your timeline will kill your Twitter experience.  Use the apps below to greatly enhance your Twitter.

Friend or Follow

In looking through all your Twitter Followers, it’s often difficult to quickly determine who is following you back. This is where Friend or Follow brings value to your Twitter experience. Simply plug in your Twitter user name and in a snap you’ll see everyone you follow that doesn’t follow you back and your fans who you don’t follow.  You can further filter by seeing which users accounts are protected and which are verified. (helpful to get rid of those fake celeb friends). Use this tool to trim the fat or add some new friends.

Twit Cleaner

What defines a good Twitter user? Who are the spammers, bots and the ones who waste your time? Twit Cleaner works by analyzing your Twitter network showing you who posts nothing but links, who doesn’t talk much and those who rarely follow anyone back. Clean up your friends and take out the garbage. Once it provides the spammers, just click to unfollow.

Listorious

One of the best aspects of Twitter is the ability to create and find new lists created by other Twitter users. With Listorious, you’ll get a quick and fun way to discover new lists on Twitter and the ability to manage your own. I personally like the top 140 lists section to see which are the most popular.

Mr. Tweet

Mr. Tweet is your Twitter recommendation and management buddy. It’s currently undergoing a revamp and will be relaunched in July, but you still have access to the great and useful Classic Mr. Tweet. You get personalized suggestions, you can recommend your favorite Twitter buddies and see some cool stats about your followers.

UnTweeps

The value of Twitter is in the instant news and updates we’ve grown so accustomed to enjoying. If your followers haven’t sent a tweet in 30, 60 or 90 days, you may want to consider cutting the fat. Simply plug in the days to search your Twitter users, then get the list of inactive Tweeps. You can then just click to unfollow those users or choose to whitelist others.