Managing your followers and friends on Twitter is not easy. But its a
fact that your success ratio and influence power is directly
proportional to how active your followers are. I’ve realized that
rather than who follows you or how many people follow you, its
important to know whom you are following and how active they are.

Some of the factors that will determine your influence power on Twitter
are

- How active your followers are.

- Do they ReTweet your tweets.

- Whether they are regularly updated and have a good following.

- Are those whom you follow, following you back etc.

With the default options on Twitter, its not really easy to manage your
followers, but here are some interesting web based applications that I
found to be of great help. Hope you find them useful too.

<img alt=”Twitter-tools”
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/twittertools-thumb.png”
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Twitter bird icon courtesy – <a
href=”http://thedesignsuperhero.com/2008/10/free-psds-give-away-high-resolution-twitter-bird-icons/”
rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>Aravind
Ajith

<strong
style=”font-size: 0.9em;”>1. Mass
Unfollow those who are not following you back with Huitter

I believe that there is no use in following people who aren’t
reciprocating on Twitter. I use this tool weekly, to check for people
who aren’t following me back. It automatically unfollows everyone who
aren’t following you back. <a class=”external”
href=”http://huitter.com/mutuality/” rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>Huitter.<a
href=”http://www.dailyseoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/massunfollowtoolhuitter.png”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”><img
alt=”mass-unfollow-tool-huitter”
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/massunfollowtoolhuitter-thumb.png”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none;”
title=”mass-unfollow-tool-huitter” border=”0″ height=”156″ width=”526″>

<span
style=”text-decoration: underline;”>2.
Automatically unfollow all inactive accounts you are following with
MyCleener

This is yet another tool
that will help us automatically unfollow all the inactive accounts
based on when their last tweet was, and help you save your follow
number. <a class=”external” href=”http://www.mycleenr.com/”
rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>MyCleener

<img alt=”automatically-clean-inactive-accounts”
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/automaticallycleaninactiveaccounts-thumb.png”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none;”
title=”automatically-clean-inactive-accounts” border=”0″ height=”156″
width=”526″>

<span
style=”text-decoration: underline;”>3.
Find out common users following and being followed by two accounts

This is a great tool, because if you knew two power user accounts, say
from your niche, then you can find out who are the guys they keep in
contact with and who are the guys they are following and followed by
with this tool. Running this tool with maximum five accounts will more
or less reveal the “hidden” circle among them. Very effective if you
know whom to stalk. <a href=”http://whofollowswhom.com/” rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>Who
follows whom<a
href=”http://www.dailyseoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/whofollowswho.png”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”><img
alt=”who-follows-who”
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/whofollowswho-thumb.png”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none;”
title=”who-follows-who” border=”0″ height=”156″ width=”526″>

<span
style=”text-decoration: underline;”>4.
Manage your friends and followers with tags

This tool lets you rate and tag your friends and filter them on a
timeline! You
can also create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline
by that group. Very effective, but a little complicated to use. <a
class=”external” href=”http://www.twittangle.com/” rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>Twittangle<a
href=”http://www.dailyseoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/twittangle1.png”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”><img
alt=”twittangle1″
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/twittangle1-thumb.png”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none;”
title=”twittangle1″ border=”0″ height=”156″ width=”526″>

<span
style=”text-decoration: underline;”>5.
Unfollow people who have not updated within “X” amount of days

This is one of the best ones out there. It lets you find out the tweeps
out of your followers who have not updated within a specified number of
days (you can decide how many days is it) and lets you unfollow them.
Extremely helpful when it comes to keeping your followers group
healthy. <a class=”external” href=”http://untweeps.mobeezy.mobi/”
rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>Untweeps<a
href=”http://www.dailyseoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/unfollowinactiveusers.png”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”><img
alt=”unfollow-inactive-users”
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/unfollowinactiveusers-thumb.png”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none;”
title=”unfollow-inactive-users” border=”0″ height=”156″ width=”526″>

<span
style=”text-decoration: underline;”>6.
Find out which Tweet made you popular and which one un-popular

One of the things that’s frustrating about Twitter is the un
availability of a tracking mechanism. I personally would like to know
what was that one tweet that got me popular and which is the one tweet
after which people unfollowed me. Very effective in finding out what
people expect from you and what they don’t. This tool helps you find
just that.<a class=”external” href=”http://www.tweet-rank.de/”
rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>Tweet
Rank (it’s German, you may want to translate it to English.)<a
href=”http://www.dailyseoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/tweetrank.png”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”><img
alt=”tweet-rank”
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/tweetrank-thumb.png”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none;”
title=”tweet-rank” border=”0″ height=”156″ width=”526″>

<span
style=”text-decoration: underline;”>7.
Find out your ReTweet Rank

ReTweets I believe are a good measure to find out how popular your
tweets are. This site picks up all the re-tweeted stories and grades
you based on the number of re-tweets. Though its not sure what the
algorithm is, its a nice tool to find out where you stand. <a
class=”external” href=”http://www.retweetrank.com/” rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>Retweetrank<a
href=”http://www.dailyseoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/retweetrank.png”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”><img
alt=”retweet-rank”
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/retweetrank-thumb.png”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none;”
title=”retweet-rank” border=”0″ height=”156″ width=”526″>

<span
style=”text-decoration: underline;”>8.
Find out who’s following who on Twitter

Well basically this tool helps you to find out if those people you are
following are following you back or not. Shows you the number of
friends, fans and followers. But I use it for a different purpose. If I
find out a power user in my niche who is popular and is often
re-tweeted, I would like to find whom he is following and what are his
sources. Simply use this tool, give in the username and it will show
who all are following him, his friends and fans. The good thing is that
you can sort them by the number of followers they have. So if you want
to steal a power users “precious friends”, this tool comes in pretty
handy. <img alt=”;)” class=”wp-smiley”
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/icon_wink.gif”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px;”> <a class=”external”
href=”http://www.friendorfollow.com/” rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>Friendorfollow<a
href=”http://www.dailyseoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/friendorfollow.png”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”><img
alt=”friendorfollow”
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/friendorfollow-thumb.png”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none;”
title=”friendorfollow” border=”0″ height=”156″ width=”526″>

<span
style=”text-decoration: underline;”>9.
Find out common followers between accounts

If you’re unsure whether to follow someone or not, just use this tool
to find out if you have common interests and whether there are guys you
are following in common.<a class=”external” href=”http://twtrfrnd.com/”
rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>TwtrFrnd<a
href=”http://www.dailyseoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/twitterfriend1.png”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”><img
alt=”twitterfriend1″
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/twitterfriend1-thumb.png”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none;”
title=”twitterfriend1″ border=”0″ height=”156″ width=”526″>

<span
style=”text-decoration: underline;”>10.
Find relevant and interesting Twitter users to follow

As I said earlier, a good twitter life is all about following and
keeping in company with the most active and interesting Tweeps. And
Mr.Tweet is one damn tool that lets you connect with them. I mean, its
a very simple concept executed in an awesome way. It shows interesting
profiles and stats such as they are active or not, responds to tweets
or not and whether they’ll follow you back. <a class=”external”
href=”http://mrtweet.net/” rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>Mr.Tweet

<a
href=”http://www.dailyseoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/mrtweet.png”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”><img
alt=”mrtweet” src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/mrtweet-thumb.png”
style=”border-width: 0px; margin: 5px auto; display: block; float: none;”
title=”mrtweet” border=”0″ height=”156″ width=”526″>Most of these
tools require username and password, so use them wisely. Hope you like
them.

UPDATE

Thanks to Mark, who introduced this tool called <a class=”external”
href=”http://www.tweepular.com/” rel=”nofollow”
style=”color: rgb(121, 8, 2); font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;”>Tweepular to
me. I wish I had known them before making this list. It is “the” best
tool I’ve found so far. It has almost all the features I can think of
for managing followers. Do check it out and you’ll quit using all
others.

<img alt=”tweepular” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-1800″
src=”http://www.dreamdrivendesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/tweepular.png”
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width=”553″>