Twitter changed mass unfollow 1/15/2010

If any of you use twitter you know that you need to prune the "freeriders" who you follow but don't follow back.After you get more than a few 100 follows this gets to be a pain as the standard twitter page has no way to do this quick.As you may know,you can only follow so many who don't follow back before your account is restricted until follow/no follow is in balance....Until this week such web utilities as twitter karma allowed you to do this easily..as well as mass follow.As of this week mass unfollow is no longer allowed under twitters TOS.This is going to make getting a large twitter page very dificult...unless someone has another way to do this.

 

Too many "internet marketing gurus" have been teaching twitter spam, which has caused twitter to make these policies.

 

I found this out yesterday, but I removed 2500 "troubled followers" this weekend with no problems
there are ways around it, just not as easy as it once was.

and it's "social media guru's" not internet marketing ones

 

know how to do that ! I spent 30 minutes doing one with 200 manually like last year ...took half hour.You can't even alphabetize your follows....things always get ruined I knew this would happen..pretty soon this will be a pay service...

 

Keep it simple, slowly build your twitter account and post relevant information to your niche website.

 

I agree, by being careful who you follow and being an active and relevant tweeter those who you follow are more likely to follow you back, causing less trouble with the following/followed ratio of your twitter acocunt.

 

Because of over spamming and abusing twitter got stricted the rules and regulations it seems.

 

Software allows you to do this and represents you going though each person and adding them or unfollowing them. I run it in the background of my computer pretty much all day long. I made a blog post of this software via my blog in my sig.

I will admit though I really loved using twitter karma its a shame to see it happen

 

Thats true. People are crazy for it. They think to convert it into money machine.

 

I used twitcleaner
http://twitter.com/TheTwitCleaner
it works great, I've used it before on other accounts

 

I use untweet - it basically unfollows ppl that don't tweet for at least two weeks.

 

I usually use Mutuality to unfollow people.

 

you can create a simple php script to unfollow 20 at a time/hour. that should be easy.

 

So technically you're not allowed to mass unfollow tons and tons of Twitter users? That is kinda BS because obviously, we all know we're going to keep doing it. Some web apps just don't learn...

 

I have a php file that "unfollows" but there is no limit on it and if you leave it to run it will unfollow them all.

If you want it PM me