Cleaning your Twitter Following List
Many people follow everyone who follows them on Twitter. They think it is common courtesy to follow a person who has followed them. I do not follow everyone who follows me, at the same time I am not against this practice.
But you have to watch out for those sneaky followers who leave you once you have followed them. These folks are not interested in you in the first place. They follow you with the hope that you might follow them back. Once you have followed them they leave you forever. This affects your following:follower ratio.
Therefore it is necessary to periodically cleanup your Twitter Following List. Weeding out those people you followed out of courtesy.
FriendOrFollow is a good tool to find who is not following you back. You can use this site to weed out the sneaky folks. This tool does not require you to enter your Twitter password. So you do not have to be worried about giving away your Twitter password.
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I love FriendOrFollow! It makes it easy to find the “sneaky folks”. From my experience, most of them don’t have a lot of followers so the sort by number of followers feature is what I use the most. If I need to unfollow a lot of people, I use Twitter Karma because it has a bulk unfollow that is great!
…or, they started following you because they thought you might be interesting; subsequently discovered you weren’t and unfollowed you.
It happens.; doesn’t make them ’sneaky’! Not everyone is follows tweepl just because they’re being followed in return. I have no interest in following Starbucks or NSW Police for instance…