I read a good review of Your Twitter Karma at @bloggingbistro‘s blog, but I had a few things to add.
Briefly, if you’re too lazy to go read her review, Your Twitter Karma is a web app to manage your Twitter followers. Like Friend or Follow, it shows your mutual friends, who is following that you aren’t following back, and the reverse.
What Your Twitter Karma does that’s extra is give you filtering and sorting options, and in some cases, a button to follow or unfollow, right from their website. Yes, that means you don’t have to click back to a Twitter page to start or stop following someone. Which is a great time saver when reviewing and managing your Twitterati.
However, there is a limitation. You can follow anyone who is following you and you’re not following back. You can unfollow anyone who isn’t following you back. But to unfollow mutual friends, you have to click through to their Twitter page.
Why would you want to unfollow anyone who is following you back? I cleaned up a lot of my following this weekend, and I deleted people in these two categories:
1. Spammers and shameless self-promoters.
A few months ago, I experimented with following back anyone who followed me. Which meant I ended up with a lot of spam in my stream. Mostly gone now.
2. People who haven’t tweeted in more than 60 days.
Granted, they were neither helping nor hurting but since they weren’t active, it neither hurt nor helped me to unfollow them.
I eliminate about 10% of my following number that way, and it felt good.
I’d had “clean up twitter followers and lists” on my To-Do list for almost a month now. Going through my list through Twitter.com had been so time consuming that I hadn’t ever finished the task.
Your Twitter Karma allowed me to do it in about two hours. I estimate it would have taken me at least twice that without it.
You know I’m all about saving time. If you haven’t tried them yet, check it out.
Update: Well, someone keeps track of when they are mentioned. Dossy, the developer of Your Twitter Karma, read my review and added an Unfollow button to mutual followers. Awesome! Thanks. You just made a good tool even better.
Tags: social media, time management
I’ve added “unfollow” to mutual friends – good suggestion. Thanks!
Juli – Thanks for the nod to my review. Your Twitter Karma used to have a “blanket unfollow” function where you could unfollow as many people as you wanted in one fell swoop. But Twitter disallowed that, so now you have to unfollow one at a time. But Your Twitter Karma is still a fairly streamlined method of getting the big picture of your Twitter account.
My review of Your Twitter Karma:
http://www.bloggingbistro.com/twitter-tool-review-your-twitter-karma/
My Twitter account: @bloggingbistro
Dossy, you are awesome! Thanks. I’ll update my review with that news.
You’re welcome, Laura. It was a good review. Yeah, I would like the mass unfollow, but now that Dossy has updated with unfollow for mutual followers, that’s almost as good.