When Is The Best Time To Do A Twitter Cleanup?
Twitter cleanup is when you go through your account and skim your followers. You eliminate the ones that are noticeably spam. For those with accounts in the tens or hundreds of thousands, this might be difficult. This could be tedious because Twitter does not like mass unfollow and follow applications.
So, for those with a lot of followers, when is it best? How often should it be done?
The best answer is once a month. Designate 15 minutes to do this as it should not be a chore and really, you can eliminate a lot even in 15 minutes. To do this, skim the profiles for ones not completed or ones that may have spam for their most recent tweet. Please do take in account that there are twitter monetizing programs like Sponsored Tweets and Be-A-Magpie that the users only tweets on occasion.
For some people, they are lax in who they allow, but for those focusing on certain niches, it might be best to take a deeper look into some followers to find out if they have anything to say. This might also be an opportunity to connect with people who actually are interesting!
Remember that sometimes your own followers do look through your follower list. If it is jam packed with spammers, they may even unfollow. They are looking through your followers to find any interesting individuals, which draw in your social networking community a lot closer.
How often do you do a twitter clean up? What are your guidelines? Do you use any specific tools to clea your twitter follow list up?
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Hi Nile.
Interesting that you do this once a month. I have heard various thoughts on this. The last person I heard speak on this subject said she “culls” her list every three days, so that she can discard followers, in an attempt to get new followers. If they don’t tweet in three days, she unfollows them, no matter who they are. I found this very harsh, as I sometimes can’t tweet for even a week, as my husband sometimes goes for his cancer related treatments for that long, and I may not have access to a computer during that time. If everyone followed her example I would have nobody to interact with! So I just wanted to say your take on how to cull seems very sane and refreshing. It’s nice to know that you are not frantic about it and are making twitter fun, like it is meant to be — and not a big chore. It’s still a little difficult for me, however, bc I do look at each and every follower before I decide to follow or not. I don’t auto-follow. Which is another subject. To auto-follow or not to auto-follow. Which do you do? I’m imagining you auto-follow as you have so many followers. Just curious!