If you have a Twitter account, the chances are good you’ve accumulated a sizeable number of deadbeat users. These free tools will help you weed them out and organize your account.
3/1/2010 6:00:00 AM By: Kristin Burnham
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Remember that Hubspot statistic that revealed that almost 56 percent of Twitter accounts are not following anyone? Or the one from Harvard Business Review that stated that 10 per cent of active Twitter users are responsible for 90 per cent of all the tweets? If you have a Twitter account, the chances are good you’ve accumulated a sizeable number of deadbeat users.
Manually sifting through your followers to identify these users could take hours. That’s why several sites have sprung up to help you take back control of your Twitter account. These sites scan your followers and generate a list identifying which ones haven t tweeted in a while so that you to remove them accordingly. Check out my top five picks for free sites that help you efficiently restore order to your account.
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With ManageTwitter you’re able to sort your Twitter contacts based on who’s inactive, who tweets more than five times a day and who tweet less than once a day. You can further subdivide these lists based on the date you began following someone, their username, number of followers or their time zone. ManageTwitter also features a mass select and deselect action for unfollowing users.
1) Check out these free Twitter management tools. – Page 1
2) Organize the people you follow with Tweepi. – Page 2
3) Twerp Scan can manage your followers and the contacts you’re following. – Page 3
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