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Twitter Tip: How to automatically unfollow unfollowers

Posted by admin On April - 12 - 2009

Thanks to Chris Brogan for posting about SocialToo, a very cool service which allows you to auto-follow Twitter and Identi.ca followers, not only that but it auto-UNfollows them if they unfollow you. That’s the feature I’m most interested in here. Too many people are taking advantage of the system by following thousands of people only to unfollow them once they have been followed back. That was a mouthful :-).

One thing though, SocialToo gives you the option to send a direct message when a person starts following you - PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS. I had a poll here a little while back to get a feel for what you thought of this, the results were an outstanding no to auto DMs. Please tell Pistachio what you think about this too.

On that note, I have already begun unfollowing people who auto DM me when I follow them back. I encourage you to do the same to help combat this. It’s not just the annoyance, but it can be costly to those with limited mobile plans.

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5 Responses to “Twitter Tip: How to automatically unfollow unfollowers”

Melanie Hetfield says:

April 13, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Thank you for that appreciated

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admin Reply:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:06 am
You are welcom, hope you can find more useful thing in my blog

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The Mistress Didi* says:

June 8, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Personally,, I like the auto DM function. I find it’s the best way for Me to keep up with new followers & check them out before I make a conscious decision to unfollow or keep following them BASED ON THEIR TWEETS. However, unlike so many people, I’m not obsessed with the number of followers I have and I’m not on twitter to sell anything to anyone. I realize that My preferences differ from others’ in so many, many ways…

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wolfie says:

August 25, 2009 at 5:01 am

nice article about unfollow.it is a lot of work keeping track of all the things you need to do when you do internet marketing. i’m only learning

thanks for you tip

wolfie

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Saul Fleischman says:

May 4, 2010 at 7:23 pm

Thank you, that really opened my eyes. And I will eliminate my auto-responder/rotator imemdiately.

@osakasaul for networking with Japan’s social media makers.

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