Comments on: 8 Top Twitter Track Tools to Organize the People You Follow

By: Ib Balicanta

Ib Balicanta — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:59:43 +0000

No TweetDeck? COME ON!!

By: Si Dawson

Si Dawson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:52:05 +0000

Another good tool to help clean your tweetstream is The Twit Cleaner. It scans those you follow, identifies the spammy, boring, those that just post links, never engage, don't follow back etc, & makes it super easy to unfollow those that aren't improving your Twitter experience. Dunno how this fits under your "no self promotion" policy, but is a relevant answer to your request for more tools :)

By: Serry J

Serry J — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:44:35 +0000

Kelly, Thanks so much for responding. It looks really interesting. Can I have more than one profile on TWITTER? Do people have multiples? Does TWITTER allow this?

By: Kelly Pope

Kelly Pope — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:27:46 +0000

My suggestion is a FREE System â€“ AUTOPILOT Your Twitter WITHOUT SPAM – SAFE USING SMARTWEETS AND TWEETSCRIPTING – EASY TO USE!… http://ff.im/-eJnH5

By: Serry J

Serry J — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:53:06 +0000

HELP!! Question for everyone. What is the best way to target followers when you are in multiple industries, plus I want to follow anyone that can help a newbie marketer…….It is getting so confusing that it’s meaningless!

By: Cristian Eslava

Cristian Eslava — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:21:21 +0000

I just tried http://www.untweeps.com/ and it still working the bulk unfollow.

I agree with you, one of the best things of twitter is that the API is open so there are a whole universe of app around it.

I think they will regret this decission.

Best regards and excuse my english :)

By: Nathan Chase

Nathan Chase — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:18:42 +0000

Thanks, Cristian.

Yes, the bulk unfollow rules at Twitter seem to have changed on January 15th, (the day before this post went live) and now affects all Twitter tools, not just Twitter Karma.

It’s unfortunate, and many people are already chiming in to express their displeasure with Twitter making it more difficult to follow and unfollow users.

By: Cristian Eslava

Cristian Eslava — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:20:24 +0000

Hi Nathan,

I just wanted to point out that the first app reviewed TwitterKarma cannot longer be used to unfollow people.

Bulk unfollow violate Twitter terms, so they say.

Best regards.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:44:50 +0000

I like the idea behind the RSS-to-SMS plan. Seems like it should work. Unfortunately, all of the sites that have offered this service look like they are no longer there (or at least not doing that any more). If anyone knows of an active site offering this, please advise. Thanks -

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:47:35 +0000

Thanks! I am going to give that a try!

By: Nathan Chase

Nathan Chase — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:23:55 +0000

Here’s one user’s long way around – subscribing to a users feed via RSS and having the RSS sent to you via SMS.

http://devilsworkshop.org/get-twitter-updates-of-specific-users-by-sms/

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:15:59 +0000

Thanks Nathan – I have actually done that before, for a while. The problem is you still have to set your general preference to be either “devices on” or “devices off”. When you turn on the devices (meaning you can choose certain people and their tweets get sent to your phone), it opens your phone up to receive every single direct message as well – and most of them are crap. If I can get tweets from one or two people, and DMs from no one, I would love to be able to do that. With all the third-party software related to Twitter, I would think someone would have come up with that by now.

By: Nathan Chase

Nathan Chase — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:12:09 +0000

Hi, Scott. On the official Twitter Phone FAQ, it says, “Can I turn updates on for some people and off for others? Yes. Set up text preferences for people you follow from the drop down ‘following’ box on the profile page.”

You can read more here: http://help.twitter.com/forums/59008/entries/14014

Hope that helps!

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:04:56 +0000

Man – yes, there is a lot of junk and spam on Twitter. That’s inevitable. But it is far from useless.

My real question for anyone that can help – I would like to choose particular people I follow and have only their tweets come to my cell phone. As it is now, I can “turn on devices” but that opens my cell phone to all the Direct Message spam. Is there a way to do this?

By: designfollow

designfollow — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:38:04 +0000

great tools.

thank you very much.