Simplify Management of Your Follows and Followers

Sure, you can build your follower list by following those who are “guaranteed” to follow you back. Your list will grow by leaps and bounds. The counts are easy to read on your Twitter home page – you’ve got X number of people you’re following and X number of people you’re following. These names don’t always match up. So, other than watching the stream of tweets, how do you determine whose interests are mutual with yours – basically, who you should continue to follow or who is following you that you should begin to follow, or who you might want to block?

Once you exceed a few hundred people on either list, determining mutual interests and follows becomes a little more difficult using Twitter alone. Building a quality following, try one of these apps which helps you analyze and manage your follow and follower lists. Here is one of my favorites...

Friend or Follow from Floating Head Studios
If you like it, follow creator Dusty Reagan and designer Cesar Torres


Enter your Twitter username and you will be taken to your page which has three tabs.

• Following: people who you are following, but are not following you back
• Fans: people who are following you, but you are not following them
• Friends: mutual follows

Mouse over each icon for a pop-up info box showing name, location, number of follows, followers, date of last tweet, and account age. You can even sort each list by each of these factors. This information is useful for an at-a-glance assessment of mutual interest and relevance. Click on the icon to be taken to their Twitter page in a new tab where you can choose to follow or unfollow the person.

I also wanted to mention My Tweeple. I have also tried this application and loved it, but recently it’s been having issues with Twitter which is keeping it from working properly. I’ll keep trying and hope to feature it soon, when these issues are worked out.