Tweeting Your Stumbles and Easily Discover Inactive Twitterers
January 22, 2009, filed under Quick Internet Tips
Just a quick post this time. I just read Twitter FAQ by Caroline Middlebrook and wanted to share some of the methods I learn twittering. Caroline received a lot of Twitter related questions and that’s why she decided to release the FAQ on commonly asked questions. Some of the questions that haven’t been addressed are
- How to tweet your stumbles
- How to purge inactive followers
- FeedTweeter beta invite code
I’ve made a comment on her article about how I work on those two and of course maybe there’s still someone else who come up with better ideas. But for the moment, here’s the method I use.
How to tweet your stumbles
To do it automatically, you can use the Twitterfeed service mentioned on the Caroline’s Twitter FAQ. The first thing you need to do is discovering your stumbles’ feed address. It looks like this: http://rss.stumbleupon.com/user/LouisLiem/favorites. You can just replace my username (louisliem) to yours. Then signup for a Twitterfeed account, enter your SU feed URL and set the time, prefix etc, and your stumbles are all over the twitterverse (among your followers, at least… : )
How to purge inactive followers
I’m not sure I know how to do it on auto pilot, but there’s a website that allows you to discover which ones are inactive in a long time on one screen. It also provide you the option to bulk unfollow them.
Go to http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/, enter your twitter credentials and you’ll see a list of your followers. You can view who you’re following, following you, have a mutual with, etc based on the option you choose on the drop down menu. The list displays the twitterers username, following/followed status and their latest update time. If you see “never”, it means they never touch their Twitter account. Or they can say “1 day ago” as well as “250 days ago”. You can bulk unfollow them by marking the checkbox and click on “Bulk Unfollow”.
The FeedTweeter service
Currently, FeedTweeter is on its closed beta, so you will need an invite code. Since Steffest allow people to search for the code, I guess it’s freely distributed. At the moment it’s “waterslide”. Like Caroline says, FeedTweeter allows you to twit-plurking or vice versa!
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I’ll have to check out that FAQ
Awesome tip, thanks… I need to start on tweeter, heard a lot of workarounds like this one.
Glad for the technique for cleaning things up and reducing clutter on Twitter.
HI all,
Nice tips thanks for the info. I am always finding in good techniques about tweeter.
And here I was, manually cycling through my twitter followers. This will save me a lot of time. I just hope the people I unfollowed don’t discover this, that could be awkward.