The more time you spend on Twitter, the more spam followers you’ll get.
And lately, I’m just not finding Twitter to be a numbers game. I’d prefer followers who are engaged, interested and who interact. Following are a few Twitter tools I’ve found, with mixed results:
http://www.mycleenr.com/ – clean interface, and it lets you know who hasn’t tweeted in a long time. I tend to unfollow [is that a word now?] those who haven’t tweeted in 2 months.
http://twitoria.com/ – At first, I thought this might be a useful tool – who wants to follow people who don’t tweet? But I found dozens who they said never tweeted – and it was far from the truth. Ignore this one.
http://twitspam.org/ – Interesting site! Lists spammers whom you should block. Seems time-consuming.
http://tweetsourcer.com – An odd application, you log in and post your marketing keywords. Hit “submit” and you’re automatically following tweeps they deem acceptable. I find it a bit overwhelming, and “graphic design Chicago” ended up giving me many people who were talking about graphic novels – not at all what I wanted! I ended up unfollowing the majority of the new tweeps.
At the end of the day, your relative usefulness of these apps can be suspect anyway, as some will provide false stats or not do as they say. Your best bet is Twitter itself. Any recommendations for good apps would be appreciated in comments!
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