How To Dramatically Improve Twitter In Five Minutes (Or Less)
1. On Twitter.com, visit your following page.
2. Scroll through all the people you are following on a page-by-page basis.
3. As soon as you see an avatar you do not recognise, click on it (open in a separate tab or window for convenience).
4. Still not ringing any bells? Here’s where you have to make a decision: either unfollow or engage with that person.
5. Repeat.
Believe me – in just five minutes or less I guarantee you’ll find a number of people you have likely never seen and will have no memory of even following. And if you never, ever notice these people in your timeline, and you never, ever engage with them (and vice versa), then why are you following them?
But here’s the cool part: make the decision to engage with that person, and you’re going to be starting up a new, and potentially wonderful, relationship.
But I’m following thousands of users. I don’t recognise any of these people. This will take FOREVER!
Ah. Better get started, then.
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Good point!
Any other good tools for managing followers? I’ve never found any which are a good fit for me.
Joel
Joel, the tool I refer to the most is http://friendorfollow.com. There’s also some value to be found at http://buzzom.com.
That’s EXACTLY why I follow only 60 people, and why I recommend that people who are serious about Twitter do keep that number tractable.
Now I’m down to 53, thanks to your advice.
Also, although I don’t follow you on Twitter, your blog is one of only 50 that I subscribe to. So, don’t feel bad. I like the insight and philosophy of your blog. (Your tweets are more popular than philosophical. I’m not into music or tv shows.)
Hey James,
No problem – if I can borrow a cliche, different strokes for different folks, and all that. And you’re absolutely right (and that was kind of the point of this article) – it absolutely pays off to make the number of people you follow on Twitter manageable. I know and recognise everybody in my followers list, and that’s why I’m following them, because I’m interested in what they have to say.
And it’s not a deal ‘for life’, either. I’ve unfollowed many folks who drifted from one thing that was appealing to me, to something (that became a main focal point) that was not. And that’s the way I think it not only should work, but simply has to.
Cheers for your comments,
Sheamus