I’ll follow you If you follow me
That is the new phrase for the twitter world “I’ll follow you, If you follow me“.
Often it is left unsaid by both parties due to good manners and the fear that you will appear shallow and needy. If you haven’t already signed up for the free tool that lets you automatically follow, unfollow and send a welcome message then by all means do it now! (it’s the big orange and blue banner on the top right of this page, Egads people).
Now that you have the future all taken care, what about all those ‘deadbeats’ who were not polite enough to follow you when you started to follow them? You could go through your list one by one and compare them. Or you could just forget it.
However, if you are not the forgiving type you can use the free comparison tool. Just plug in two twitter IDs and you can see who is not following whom! Then take whatever action you feel is advisable.
Since it does display more information than that, you can also use it for more tasks. The simplest tool for finding those ungrateful nonfollowers is “friend or follow“. There, you just enter your username and the icons of those non-reciprocators show up all in one neat shooting gallery row.
From there, it is a simple matter of right clicking on their icon to load their page in another window or tab. Now it’s so easy to just click the following button and then the unfollow button. If you like, you can verbally say out loud “take that” as you unfollow them. Justice at last is yours!
For all you twitters out there, please follow me @AutoTweet4free. But be warned, I will regularily be culling the herd of all non-followers. The first time I checked it, I unceremoniously dumped 27 freeloaders and will dump more.
OK, so now you’ve got rid of some deadwood. Now you can turn your attention to finding people with similar interests as you. If you want to take a chance and just follow everyone who uses a keyword (such as your name) you can easily do that for free at Twollow. I’ll give that a try. But if I find out that I’m adding more freeloaders, I’ll either change my keywords or discontinue the practise altogether.
When you first set it up, you can choose whether you want to limit each autofollow action (about three times a day) to 5, 10 or 15 new followings. This prevent you from mistakenly following 1,000′s of people who use a word like ‘the’ in a tweet.
For the ultimate in simplicity there is “Twitter Karma“. In a couple of slick moves you can instantly see who is not following you, then bulk ‘unfollow’ them in return. That should give you an even greater reason to shout “take that scum“!
As an experiment, I ‘bulk unfollowed’ the last 100 freeloaders and then ‘bulk ‘followed’ them again. That should give them fair warnng. Tomorrow I will ‘bulk unfollow’ any holdouts then say TTFN.
Another tool for sorting through followers and nofollowers is located at “MyTwitterFlock“. Once you get over 100 followers you may want to check out the text to discover some limitations on API calls and a 2,000 follower limitation.
