ChumpDump is a new Twitter unfollow game for Google Android and Apple iPhone. We think you’ve got too many chumps in your friends list. Friends are today’s 21st century currency in life. You see it in every social network, this obsession with collecting friends. But how many of them are really friends? The game’s daily lottery picks a winner out of your friends this and then digs through a month of tweets and tells you a story about... 

ManageTwitter is a tool to help you guage the effectiveness of those that you follow.  Utilizing oAuth, you log in allow the service to get some information such as the following: who is following you back what accounts are dormant or quiet what accounts are talkative It will automatically suggest a number of people you can unfollow ( mine came in at 63) with some great options.  The first one I noticed is the choice to select allor unselect... 

JustUnfollow is a tool from Twi5 that allows you to pick and choose who to unfollow, based on those that don’t follow you back.  One thing they did right was to not make this a bulk tool.  Right now you only get 50 people listed, but I imagine that will increase soon. If they can add in ways to sort by not only who isn’t following you back, but also who hasn’t tweeted in a certain timeframe.  Read More →

The Twit Cleaner is a script that runs through those you follow looking for bots and people that only post links.  It then gives you a detailed report via direct message (so you must follow them for a bit) and allows you to decide who to unfollow.  They use oAuth so have no fear there. If you follow fewer than 2,000 people the service is totally free.  Over that is is only $5 via PayPal, not a bad deal or way for them to pay for the service... 

Right away I should clarify a couple things that TwitterSnooze does before you jump in.  They do store your Twitter username and password during the snooze time in their databases.  Also, they actually unfollows and follows a person based on your setting.  it does not really hide their tweets, it removes them. The idea of the service is when someone becomes overly chatty or maybe attends a conference.  Keep in mind another side effect of... 

Mass Twitter Action scared me in one way on the opening screen.  Besides the sparce UI, it just asks for: your username password follow or unfollow list of names to do the above That is it.  Just big boxes.  No help.  No links.  No contact.  No about.  Nothing. So passing all of that I did wonder how I would get the list of names I wanted to mass follow or unfollow.  Well in a tiny link on the page is yet another tool, Twitter Retriever. ... 

It’s a bird. No, it’s a plane. No that’s a tweet… full of SPAM! Tweet Blocker to the rescue! There’s a new superhero in the Twitterverse and it goes by the name of Tweet Blocker .  Read More →