10 Twitter tools to effectively manage your followers
Managing your followers and friends on Twitter is not easy. But its a fact that your success ratio and influence power is directly proportional to how active your followers are. I’ve realized that rather than who follows you or how many people follow you, its important to know whom you are following and how active they are.
Some of the factors that will determine your influence power on Twitter are
- How active your followers are.
- Do they ReTweet your tweets.
- Whether they are regularly updated and have a good following.
- Are those whom you follow, following you back etc.
With the default options on Twitter, its not really easy to manage your followers, but here are some interesting web based applications that I found to be of great help. Hope you find them useful too.
Update
Most of the Twitter Applications that lets you manage followers listed here have been outdated. I’ve updated the links against each with the date, and shall keep updating it regularly.
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1. Mass Unfollow those who are not following you back with Huitter
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I believe that there is no use in following people who aren’t reciprocating on Twitter. I use this tool weekly, to check for people who aren’t following me back. It automatically unfollows everyone who aren’t following you back. Huitter. (Outdated - Update: Aug, 2011)
2. Automatically unfollow all inactive accounts you are following with MyCleener
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This is yet another tool that will help us automatically unfollow all the inactive accounts based on when their last tweet was, and help you save your follow number. MyCleener, Friend or Follow (Works! - Update: Aug, 2011)
3. Find out common users following and being followed by two accounts
This is a great tool, because if you knew two power user accounts, say from your niche, then you can find out who are the guys they keep in contact with and who are the guys they are following and followed by with this tool. Running this tool with maximum five accounts will more or less reveal the “hidden” circle among them. Very effective if you know whom to stalk. Who follows whom (Works! - Update: Aug, 2011)
4. Manage your friends and followers with tags
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This tool lets you rate and tag your friends and filter them on a timeline! You can also create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline by that group. Very effective, but a little complicated to use. Twittangle, ReFollow (Works! - Update: Aug, 2011)
5. Unfollow people who have not updated within “X” amount of days
This is one of the best ones out there. It lets you find out the tweeps out of your followers who have not updated within a specified number of days (you can decide how many days is it) and lets you unfollow them. Extremely helpful when it comes to keeping your followers group healthy. Untweeps (Outdated - Update: Aug, 2011)
6. Find out which Tweet made you popular and which one un-popular
One of the things that’s frustrating about Twitter is the un availability of a tracking mechanism. I personally would like to know what was that one tweet that got me popular and which is the one tweet after which people unfollowed me. Very effective in finding out what people expect from you and what they don’t. This tool helps you find just that. Tweet Rank (Outdated - Update: Aug, 2011) (it’s German, you may want to translate it to English.) 
7. Find out your ReTweet Rank
ReTweets I believe are a good measure to find out how popular your tweets are. This site picks up all the re-tweeted stories and grades you based on the number of re-tweets. Though its not sure what the algorithm is, its a nice tool to find out where you stand. Retweetrank (Works! - Update: Aug, 2011)
8. Find out who’s following who on Twitter
Well basically this tool helps you to find out if those people you are following are following you back or not. Shows you the number of friends, fans and followers. But I use it for a different purpose. If I find out a power user in my niche who is popular and is often re-tweeted, I would like to find whom he is following and what are his sources. Simply use this tool, give in the username and it will show who all are following him, his friends and fans. The good thing is that you can sort them by the number of followers they have. So if you want to steal a power users “precious friends”, this tool comes in pretty handy. 
Friendorfollow (Works! - Update: Aug, 2011)
9. Find out common followers between accounts
If you’re unsure whether to follow someone or not, just use this tool to find out if you have common interests and whether there are guys you are following in common. TwtrFrnd (Works! - Update: Aug, 2011)
10. Find relevant and interesting Twitter users to follow
As I said earlier, a good twitter life is all about following and keeping in company with the most active and interesting Tweeps. And Mr.Tweet is one damn tool that lets you connect with them. I mean, its a very simple concept executed in an awesome way. It shows interesting profiles and stats such as they are active or not, responds to tweets or not and whether they’ll follow you back. Mr.Tweet (Works! – Update: Aug, 2011)
Most of these tools require username and password, so use them wisely. Hope you like them.
UPDATE
Thanks to Mark, who introduced this tool called Tweepular (Update: Aug, 2011 – Temporarily Down, check http://www.tweepi.com instead) to me. I wish I had known them before making this list. It is “the” best tool I’ve found so far. It has almost all the features I can think of for managing followers. Do check it out and you’ll quit using all others.
- Click here to manage your Twitter followers using Tweepi
- Click here to manage your Twitter lists easily
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Great8 Post. Will check it
This is a great list, but I don’t like huitter. SUmmarily dropping all those feeds that don’t follow you is a bad idea. Should be called quitter.
A great list of Twitter tools.These tools are essential during the explosion of twitter.As you rightly said one should take care about user name and password.
You forgot a good Firefox extension, not exactly an application but a definite plus in managing your tweeps and followers:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591
Downside: it slows loading twitter a bit, but worth it with all the added features like built in search from your twitter home…
Didn’t know about Power Twitter – thanks for the tip!
Nice set of tools. Tweeted this post. Thanx.
Hi Mani,
This is very useful information. I’ve been wanting to do some clean up work on my twitter account but found it to be tedious. Now that you have shared some wonderful tools with us it should make my work simpler.
Cheers,
Eddie Gear
I like the post but hey – a lot of people don’t want to make unecessary noise so keep quiet and follow. If you have 12000 followers do you want / expect them to all keep tweeting the whole time? I reckon a lot of these are really useful, but the unfollow ones a touch harsh. You could be losing a followers now who could be valuable later.
Yeah JP! Yu never know what the future will have prepare for you. Excellent point dude!
Great information. I didn’t know there was so much to be automated. Thanks!
Fantastic list, thank you so much!
That was fun, although I couldn’t get #2 to work, it looks like some trouble on the site. I will try again in a bit. I gave you some tweetluv for your effort putting these new tools together. Mr. Tweet is the only one I had heard of.
I’d be careful with Huitter. There are a lot of people who are worth following that don’t follow back. But yes there’s a lot of dross out there.
What a fabulous resource. Thank you for sharing the great finds. All of these are new to me.
Hey, This is a great collection. Thanks for preparing it.
You might be interested in looking at our tool too!! We do have an Twitter Account Management Tool. InRev TwitIn is available at buzzom.com
Bhupendra
Buzzom rocks. Great for bulk following back new followers. Love it!
I am new to twitter and I am looking for ways to get more followers, I only have 3 right now and I really want more people to see what I have to say and what I am doing. Any ideas on how to get more people to come to my twitter page and follow me?
tennisroll
hi, Evan. I am new to twitter. I’ve only got three followers as well maybe you will be my 4th.
1) Use Mr Tweet, & follow recommendations. Lots of them will follow back.
2) In Find People screen, put #MoreFollowers. You’ll see a long list of people who’ll be glad to follow back. Just pick the ones that interest you.
3) Do likewise with #FollowFriday.
4) Pick a Trending topic that interests you from the sidebar, click on it, and follow those whose comments you like.
5) Tweet a lot, reply to other people’s tweets, RT good tweets, and other people will find YOU!
Good list of managers. I would add twitterholic on there as well, can be great to find people.
Number 2 was giving me trouble as well, it says they are limited to profiles with 700 followers or less.
i will be releasing a twitter app in under 1 week that could easily become your most favorite twitter tool. follow me to find out about its upcoming release.
@jonathannelson
Your posting ralley straightened me out. Thanks!
A great set of tools!!
Thanks.
Philippe
nice, what about managing the people that leave you?
whats the best tool to see who leaves?
nice tools…will bookmark first and read later
Cheers!
One of the better articles how to sort out the follow/following circle.
Great post. Thanks you very much
You can see more: http://tr.im/huZC
Great Tools — glad you shared! I will be check a couple of these out for myself. Thanks.
Hey Mani it will help me to manage my follower in better way.
friendorfollow has horrible stats. They lagged and so where not accurate for days at a time. also doesfollow had same issue. I would guess these apps need to use OAuth for real time numbers to improve service
great post, thanks for the info
Great post. Nice set of tools . . .
Thanks really very useful inforamtion but tell me that how can we get traffic from twitter
Wonderful post worth reading.
Thank you for the info.. The twitter embed code i have used on my blog doesn’t seem to work correctly?
Nice collection man, You can check an article on “Internet Techies” to manage twitter followers thru Gmail Mailbox. Thanks for sharing
The tools for managing your twitter experience are just multiplying by the day! Twitter is starting to gain some serious momentum, and the latest is that they are going to challenge Google soon! Who could’ve thought it would evolve from this?
Hi:
Nice post. That is one of the best article and it is very useful information. Good Tools – Thanks sharing me.
You missed Tweepular.com It BLOWS Friendorfollow out of the water.
Great list – we have 20 over at our site – some listed here and some not – thanks!
Am very impressed with this list of tools, can’t wait to begin using some of the more interesting ones listed. I’m a little hesitant of huitter only because I follow a number of folks not so much for them to follow me but to follow their interesting or witty tweets. They often fit in the category of 5,000 followers but follow 40 themselves. On the other hand, many do return reply if you message them. Thanks and I will likely link this article on an upcoming tweet. Good stuff.
Wonderful list..Thanks so much Mani……
Mani,
There are many people claiming to know about these tools, only you have the really good ones. There are a number of other ones – FlashTweet, and Twitter Karma deserve mention, but only work occasionally if you fave a large follower base.
What I want to mention is that “huiter” is only Free as they initially claim for the First 3X only. After that you get this message:
“Sorry, but this script usage is limited for three times. If you want to continue please use another script. If you want to request another service just comment this post”.
Following the “another script” link, you are told you can use an unknown script for an unknown monthly Fee, and prompted for your Twitter ID and your Email, with PayPal Visa Donate button that says “Subscribe”. I stopped there, as no information as to what I was about to do was provided. Not that I’m not willing to pay for huiter, just find the redirect suspiciuos. Here’s the link decide for yourself. http://www.undergroundtwittertools.com/
Twitter can be a very valuable link building tool but not for links on twitter itself. Its a kind of second order effect, I think this would be just as effective as some of the other social bookmarking sites, article sites and press release sites. So it could help but I would not put all my eggs in that basket.. Cheers keep up the articles.
Another nice site that just launched—albeit more humorous—is TweetingTooHard.com (link). Allows users to submit, browse and vote for the most self-important and pretentious tweets.
Best practice: make the embedded screenshots link to the *site*, not the screenshot itself.
TweetLater will also do automatic following and unfollowing on Twitter.
So Twitter is awesome for Taking traffic to you website . It is very
simple to setup and its a fun positive way to keep in contact with
people. To get more followers on twitter check out this amazing
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Twitter
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Great list and comments!
Please check out my two Twitter applications for building, managing, nurturing and advertising your Twitter profile:
1. http://twittermass.com – A free suite of tools to help you build, manage and nurture your Twitter following. Has been positively reviewed by people such as ReadWriteWeb.com. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twittermass_a_smarter_way_to_auto-follow_on_twitter.php
2. http://milliondollarfollow.com – Advertise your Twitter profile for only $1 and receive 150 chances to win up to 1 million Twitter followers. Someone will win 400 new followers today (5/4/2009). 10 cents from every advertisement goes straight to MalariaNoMore.org relief efforts.
Thanks for this great list. Just to point out that Tweet Rank now have an english version up and running.
Thanks for the information. A great resource
great. thnx !
Wow, I love these tools. Thanks
I love Huitter and am using it now to update folllowers and non-followers… cool tool… highly recommended.
I love Huitter and am using it now to update folllowers and non-followers… cool tool… highly recommended.
Great post! Thanks for the tips!
What a great blog. I was looking for this information for quite some time. Thanks
With all the gazillions of Twitter tools, I would have to say that you’ve come up with the most sensible, useful tools.
Thanks!
MELANIE
Found some good tool that I never came across..
I would like to try out “Who Follows Whom”..
Why not use a fully automated Twitter poster to enhance your position within the Twitter community, there are many automated applications and softwares around now including http://www.twitterxtreme.com
Awesome List!
Grate work ….
Great post! You should check out Ref.ly. It’s an amazing new tool for turning Bible verses into short URLs.
Excellent list and thanks for including Tweepular at the end. I have found it to be an excellent tool that I use the most often.
Thanks for sharing this tools. I too have come to absolutely love twitter tools. I found u blog by searching it on Google for twitter tools. A few of the ones you listed I am already starting to use as of now.
Amazing tools,thanks
Nice article, definitely worth reading.
Just want to add another service which works great; http://tweetsourcer.com
Happy tweeting!
Nice list!
Please don’t forget about http://twittermass.com
- Follow by Keyword
- Remove Unwanted Guests
- Clone Twitter Users
- Manual Follow
- Follow Friday
- Track Followers
- Local Follow
- Follow by Popularity
- Message Center
Very useful list of tools..I am definitely going to try some of these to manage my followers…Thanks
nice list. We use some of them to manage our followers for Wild Mountain Gourmet
@wildmountain
I checked out TwitterMass. Tweet Spinner is far superior. It’s free version has many of the same features as TM (TM charges $24/month for its basic version).
And Tweet Spinner’s pro version blows the competition out of the water.
For my Twitter management, I use Tweet Spinner and TweetLater. They cover all the bases for me.
http://bit.ly/mMvAD
Jay
great source….nice…thanks for sharing
wow, this is a useful and nice collection. thank you.
Awesome Post dude love your blog!
Fantastic list. Thanks for sharing.
wow that’s is very good twitter tools…I will try this.. thankyou..
Tweepular is the best tool so far. When it’s not available, use friendorfollow. Never know there are many more and will try them all one by one. Thank you for this great article.
Very great this one!
thank you for sharing.
try have a look at http://bit.ly/gPLK5 listing twitter apps using OAuth login – Huitter and Tweepular included
Pretty weak… MyCleenr is some part-time gig and they’ve capped their service to those who follow less than 700 accounts due to scalability issues
Great, Great Apps!
Brilliant programing!
Genius!
Regards
Sean Vanity
President
http://www.SeanVanity.Com
http://www.HugePhony.Com (#1 in UK!)
Anyone who’s only following me because I follow them back, or who would unfollow me because I don’t reciprocate, is following me for the WRONG reasons – and I wish them well in their decision to unfollow.
I wish there was a tool, though, that would catch those who unfollow the minute you DO follow them back…
Hi Mani,
Awesome list
Am going to Try it out ! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome tools! Thank you!
One of my favorites is a desktop app called Twiping. Great stuff: http://twiping.com
i going to use most of this tools
great list..
Thanks for sharing this! I’m positive that this article will help me use Twitter better for our social media promotion platforms.
Finally I got a really nice or we can say useful post. Thanks for sharing a lovely post.
Good work man! This is one of the good collection of twitter tools. I will defiantly use one of them.
I appreciate your defiance…
i find friendsorfollow kinda cool
Really great tools. It will change the twitter face.
Sadly Mycleenr will only currently work with fewer than 700 followers. They are working on a fix but they do have day jobs.
Thanks alot!
Some of these tools are really effective and it’s thank to this site I’m using them!
I’ll follow you ALL Back at:
http://twitter.com/PrayMaddyMcCann
i have developed an app that provides you with unfollow recommendations.
http://www.theunfollowapp.com
i hope it helps
nice collection….great!!!!!
I don’t agree with the idea of following those who follow you. When it comes to reciprocation, it does not work. How could I read all the tweets of 3540 people that follow me when I check my homepage ?
This idea is a cheap one. I have my own 8 people that I follow, just that. Twitter is all about influence and power. I can’t imagine Ashton Kutcher with his 1+ million followers making reciprocation to them, that would be just useless. What makes him so powerful is that people are interested in his life simple facts and add him as a bookmark in their twitters
I wrote a GreaseMonkey script (a FireFox extension) to help me understand the people I’m following or not (and if I should)
the “Follow Rank and Follows in Common for Twitter User Profiles” script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/64286 working on a users profile page (like http://twitter.com/manikarthik) and calculates
a) “Follows in Common” or how many of the people I’m following are also being followed by this person. kind of like “Friends in Common” on Facebook
b) “Follow Rank” or how many of the people I’m following are also following this person.
You can also find out who the people responsible for those scores are.
This gives you some information about how important they are in your Twitter Social Network.
enjoy
Nice post thanks ….
Great tools, but i think the unfollow one is not necessary..u need them for your marketing, to see your products. keep up the good work
Regards
Demola
I agree that this is a great list of Twitter tools for managing followers.
But there is another awesome tool (desktop application) for getting Twitter Followers and Customers in short time I found out recently
http://bit.ly/cBaBph
Ya it have a series of great tools to manage followers on twitter & it really helpful
I like to use the friend copy tool on http://twitterflushandcopy.hamen.us.com/.
As Huitter is not working anymore here is an alternative:
http://www.refollow.com
Sounds great! I totally need to tidy up my Twitter a bit
Thanks!
Thanks for the great twitter tips
The First tool is showing some unrelated page. can you check and let me know huitter.com
They pulled the plug I guess
I used really amazing tools. The qwitter and Friendorfollow awesome man.
nice tips….a control of followers/following is to be done in my twitter too.
Nice post….All most everthing is new for me as I am at novice level in Twitter….
Ome Tools Are Not Working. Please update new tools.
Thank You
Pavani Perumalla
Hi Friends,
i need best tool for removing who are not following me in twitter. please reply me if any one suggesting me.
Thank You
going try some of those stuffs to monitor my twitter contacts
Just a heads up… your first few links are broken. Hence I did not finish the article because several of your suggested links are no longer relevant.
FYI – Cheers to keeping blogs relevant.
Great Post,
Follow us we will follow back!
http://twitter.com/nagaworld
Great informations, did not know these sites! Thank you.
great twitter tools, thanks for this nice info
Nice Tools!!
Can someone please re-arrange the good tools for twitter. As some of them are hard to understand, and huitter is no more available.
Guys found new tools.
Great list very helpful!
I must’ve got here late…most of the tools are no longer available…even the update!
Buzzom.com is awesome!
thanks for these great tools, I will check them
Seem very usefull as twitter itself does not provide these insights one could get thru the api or eternal patience and hardwork.
This information not for Business, also not to look for Money,but to share Phenomenon to us all.
Great list. Personally I use My Tweeple (mytweeple.com). I used to use tweepular, but ist down;)
Send your Twitter’s tweets to your friends Emails, Automatically just with a Hashtag!
Tweet to Email makes it easy for people to email selective tweets directly from Twitter itself to their friends Email who don’t use Twitter.
Many people are just not into Twitter yet. You can help them by sending tweet you think may like right into their email inbox . you can share link , quotes or news updates with all your friends even if they didn’t use Twitter .
Its very simple to use:
* Login With Twitter ID (and optionally enter your email address)
* Create a groups
* select hash tag for that group ( Example:#TM1 )
* Add your contacts manually or save your time by importing your address boook
* Start sending your selective tweet to emails just by adding group’s hash tag to your tweet
Give your Tweets new dimension , It’s time to share your tweets with the whole world. It’s time to Tweet to Email
Great8 Post. Will check it
nice tools thanx
Half of these sites are dead now
They keep changing always, and i try and catch up
thanks for the info’s
Mani – What are you doing with the new twitter API standards? I would like to figure out an easy way to delete some people I’m following that aren’t active. Used ReFollow.com but now its pay/dead.
Arleigh, try Tweepi.com. Pretty impressive.
I don’t agree with the idea of following those who follow you. When it comes to reciprocation, it does not work. How could I read all the tweets of 3540 people that follow me when I check my homepage ?
This idea is a cheap one. I have my own 8 people that I follow, just that. Twitter is all about influence and power. I can’t imagine Ashton Kutcher with his 1+ million followers making reciprocation to them, that would be just useless. What makes him so powerful is that people are interested in his life simple facts and add him as a bookmark in their twitters
thanks for these great tools, I will check them
I have already used your suggested tools. They are of great help. This is why; I have also bookmarked your page for future use.
huitter.com is no longer live. You might want to remove that entry.
Even mycleenr.com is closed now.
Great tools, twitter now plays a great role in internet marketing business, thanks for sharing us these great tools
Indeed twitter tools is very effective. This is great discussion. I enjoyed reading the comments here. I hope that you will make an updates soon.
Lots of these websites have now been closed
yea.. none work…
So i made my own twitter tool http://zeeis.me/twitter-unfollow-tool-unfollowers/ .
Thanks for the great post! I’ve been thinking about this exact same thing over the last few days, so it’s weird that you posted on it. You definitely did a much nicer job writing about it than I could have though.
sorry to say, but most of these tools are not available now
Working on twitter had never been easy before reading your article on twitter.
I use twidium http://twidiumapp.com/ It has four important features I need – mass following, list following, unfollowing and a project planner.
Where can I find a tool that lists Twitter users by follower to following ratio?
I want to pull a list of users with, as an example, 5,000 to 20,000 followers and see how many they are following back.
Which Twitter tool offers this feature of the ratio of follower:following?
http://twitter.com/divorcesaviour
New Tool: http://www.tweepdash.com.
A nice and clean interface for really easy follower-management. It uses 0Auth, so your information is safe.
Check it out and let us know what you think.
But I am n a doubt that- mass following and unfollowing might banned your twittter account. These application are third person apps, how much reliable are these to use in your twitter account?
Hey, Great tools list. presently I am using few of them. Thanks for share.
looks like that UPDATED Link is trouble! and has been removed – just shows we need to be careful before trusting anything you read online
There is some problem with twitter tools
Thanks dude. Wanted same info.
Dont plan on starting a Twitter account anytime soon…
great post. thanks for the tools
really usefull these twitter tools. thanks.
Thanks for the great info!
FYI – This hyperlink near the bottom; “- Click here to manage your Twitter followers using Tweepi,” has an extra “http” in it.
Add some other tools for twitter like refollow, klout etc.
This is awesome information! I’ve really been struggling with managing my Twitter accounts. Thanks for narrowing down the best tools!