Analyze your Twitter profile

The evaluation method was simple. I visited each site and registered. After my proﬁle loaded, I took a screenshot of the interface and then spent about ten minutes looking around the site. A decent site should be able to explain itself in that time. After using the application, I rated each site against my wish list. ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Overview I sat down with my co-workers and created a wish-list of qualities that we as marketing people want in a follower management application. Of course, all the apps have to be free and not require a downloadable client. Beyond that, we wanted to be able to: Have an easy-to-use interface See how active our followers are Get the hang of it quickly View proﬁles See who we’re following Tag followers to better organize them See who is following us Add comments to followers’ proﬁles Unfollow/follow people Sort followers by Twitter activity Bulk unfollow/follow users Receive suggestions of new people to follow ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Rating ps r Fo llow lar Ka rm a er ee do pu ow er u itt Tw e n ee Foll itt H Un Fri Tw Re Tw FREE ONLINE TWITTER FOLLOWER MANAGEMENT APPS Have an easy-to-use interface Y Y Y Y Y Y Easy to get the hang of Y Y N N Y N See who we’re following Y N N N N N See who is following us Y Y Y Y Y Y Unfollow/follow people N Y Y N N Y Bulk unfollow/follow users Y Y Y Y Y Y See how active our followers are N N N N Y Y View proﬁles N Y Y N N N Tag followers to better organize them N Y N N N N Add comments to followers’ proﬁles N Y N Y N Y Sort followers by Twitter activity Y Y N Y Y Y No Receive suggestions of new people to Yes follow $ No, unless you pay ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Huitter/Mutuality Pros Cons You can bulk follow or unfollow Twitter That’s all you can do. This is the users. deﬁnition of a single service site. It does one thing and not very well. At the very least they need a way to view your users to ﬁnd the accounts that you want to exclude from your action. ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Huitter/Mutuality Interface: Comments The Manual version is free, while Auto comes with a small fee. You can follow all who follow you and unfollow all who do not follow you back. Rating ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

UnTweeps Pros Comments: Easy-to-use and allows you to ﬁlter your Allows you to unfollow users based on followers based on how many days the last time they tweeted. since their last tweet. You can only use the site once every 14 The site is very straightforward and days unless you want to pay for the looks great. service. Cons Rating UnTweeps only does one thing and charges you for it after you use it once. The one-time use feature is a huge drawback for a single service site. It’s even more limiting by the fact that you have to have a PayPal account. ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Friend Or Follow Pros Cons No login and easy to use. You can’t follow or unfollow from the Easy to navigate and sort users. site. Looking at a bunch of tiny boxes can be hard on the eyes and makes it diﬃcult to keep track of what you’re doing. ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Friend Or Follow Interface: Comments You don’t have to register with the site. When you click on a photo, it takes you to that person’s Twitter account. It’s also possible to sort users by A-Z ascending or descending order. Rating ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Tweepular Pros Cons Tweepular has all the main features we We can’t tag accounts or comment on want – even suggesting new Twitterers proﬁles to better organize followers. to follow. It’s easy to use and simple to understand. You can see who you’re following and see who is following you. Plus, it has the standard unfollow/ follow accounts and bulk unfollow/ follow users functionality and allows you to see how active accounts are. ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

ReFollow Pros Cons This site hits all of our criteria save one: It doesn’t recommend new followers, the ability to suggest new followers. but we can ﬁnd those people through other sites if we have to. ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Conclusions Refollow and Tweepular are the hands- down winners. Refollow edges out Tweepular due to the variety of ﬁltering options and the ability to tag and comment on user accounts. Refollow is a great site for beginners as well as super users. Tweepular’s colorful design, broad functionality and suggested user tab make it a strong runner-up. ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Links Read the entire review on our blog http://blog.theduffyagency.com/ Be sure to visit on Twitter Tuesday for new Twitter tips and reviews every week The Duffy Agency website http://www.theduffyagency.com/ ©2009 Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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