Unfollowing Twitter users that you once followed is not as easy as it should be, especially if you follow thousands. Unfortunately, the Twitter terms of service do not allow for bulk unfollow buttons.   It used to be that Twitter Karma was the reigning champion of sites to visit to choose Twitter Followers to unFollow.  But, the Twitter TOS killed the value of that site. I quickly looked a few new sites like

1. http://iunfollow.com/
2. http://www.justunfollow.com
3. http://untweeps.com

However, I settled on http://manageflitter.com as the best free service to unfollow unwanted Twitter friends.

Unfollowers Created Here

ManageFlitter has great benefits.

1. It will handle my follower count which is over 6,000. Many tools can’t or they display 30 on a page.
2. I can unfollow those with no avatar
3. I can unfollow those with no tweets
4. I can unfollow those who do not follow me. (that one seems a bit silly)

My favorite is to let it show me the folks that have not tweeted recently. I can methodically pick through the list leaving all of my good friends who never tweet and removing people I don’t know who also never tweet.

Once the results are up on the page, all those people you want to unfollow can be sorted by;

1. Follow Date
2. Followers (count)
3. Following (count)
4. Listed (how many lists are they on)
5. Tweets
6. Username
7. Last Tweet (that’s my favorite one)

When you see someone hasn’t tweeted in months or years it is a good bet they have a new account or left Twitter.

One of the side effects of removing followers is that it seems to benefit the ratios that the services like Klout and similar services look at.

So, if you need to unfollow some twitter followers this is the best free tool that I have found.

Do you have a favorite way to unfollow on Twitter?

Let us all know in the comments.

I was curious how many of my Twitter followers were from Canada. Searching Google the top ranked result was http://www.mapmyfollowers.com/. But it was slow to load and didn’t provide numbers for each country.

I later found http://tweepsmap.com. Not only does it show a world map of my followers around the globe, it also provides a some statistics.

The List View, which you see in the image below, presents a percentage of followers for each country.  Clicking on Map View removes the list and reveals the entire map of my Twitter followers across the globe.

You can also have the map or the list show you State/Province or City percentage of followers.

As with other common mapping providers you can zoom and and out for the perfect view.

Click to see a larger of of TweepsMap

What is your favorite tool to show your twitter followers on a world map of the earth? (You have followers that are not on earth?) Haha

If Twitter is broken and you want to contact Twitter here is how to get help.

Visit http://twitter.com/help/escalate and fill out the simple form to get help with Twitter.

It is probably a good idea to first review the Twitter Help Center and search for your issue.  I found my issue ( no emails being sent for DM’s and new followers ) and was able to include that as a reference in my form submission.

Twitter Help Center

They seem like a pretty friendly group and quite helpful. I hope your Twitter issues are solved quick as a tweet.

When to tweet http://www.whentotweet.com/ shows you the best time to tweet based on when your followers tweet.

Here is the home page.

Home page of When to Tweet

After you enter your Twitter name the screen adds a paragraph below the text box asking you to Refresh so that you can visit the Results page.  It would be awesome if this happened automatically.

Click the Result link to see the best time to tweet

The result page shows a nice graph and clearly tells you the time to tweet across the top of the page.

This is great if you are in a Central European Zone.  Don’t assume that this information is in your time zone.

I needed to subtract 6 hours to adjust for my timezone.

Graph showing when is the best time to Tweet.

This is a very handy tool to help you reach the largest audience, just beware of the time zone issue.

Do you know of other sites that help you choose when to Tweet?

TweetOClock says that it is shutting down.  My submission to the site failed to process and gave no results.

If you are in the Eastern Time Zone, just before mid-day seems ideal because three hours back the west coast folks are arriving at their desks and over in Europe they haven’t left for home quite yet.

How do you choose when is the best time to Tweet?

The user interface for twitter is new in September, 2010. A few initial reactions.

The New Twitter

1. It is missing the classic user generated RT messages on the @ Mentions tab.
2. Allows you to scroll down the page forever. That is kind of fun.
3. Is much wider. 1040 pixels wide now.
4. Favorites: Now available in the sidebar of Home and in the main column of Profile.
5. Is not intuitive and takes time and effort to learn how to use.
6. I think that the new Retweets tab should automatically display Your Tweets, Retweeted, instead of everyone else’s.
7. Wouldn’t it be grand if there were notifications of new DMs and @ Replies?

What do you think of the new Twitter user interface? Late last night a few folks agreed with the cry for the missing RT in the @ Mentions tab.

People want their RT recognized.

When you are planning a trip to a new city you might want to review your Twitter followers to see a list of your Twitter friends in that city.  Here is the tool for you. TweetSearch allows you to search the Bio information of your friends and followers on Twitter.

Here is the Home page for TweepSearch.com

I entered a search for my name and New York.

Here is what the screen looks like.

Now I can scroll through the list, which includes avatars, and be reminded of my New York tweeps that have typed New York in the Bio field of their Twitter profile.

The results can be sorted by last update, screen name, followers and friends and indicates whether they are following.  It also shows their follower/following counts, the number of updates, their full bio and even includes a link to their Twitter page.  This is yet another cool Twitter app, currently in Beta, created by @dacort.  Keep up the good work Damon!

Drop a comment below if you have seen other tools that allow you to search for Twitter friends.

I received a Tweet informing me that I was Tweeted by six CEOs.  This caught my attention because I had never thought about which folks are CEOs.

I replied to the tweet suggesting that it might be possible that not all of the folks on my list are actually CEOs.  The reply informed me that it is a best effort and acknowledged that there are gray areas of course.  It was further explained that they try to be “C-level-ish”.

Does your Twitter profile indicate you are a CEO?

Who are CEOs Tweeting About

Use Google to search Twitter.com using the Google intitle: command to find useful information.

Use Google to Search for specific Twitter user names

site:twitter.com intitle:”jim* * on twitter”

site:twitter.com intitle:”jim spencer * on twitter”

Use Google to Search for words in Twitter the Bio of Twitter Profiles

site:twitter.com intitle:”on twitter” “bio* * Drupal, SEO, PPC ”

Use Google to Search the contents of Tweets

site:twitter.com/*/statuses/* “WordPress 3.0″

I just ran across http://tweetboard.com/alpha/ and thought you might want to know about this site and request an invite. TweetBoard will pull in your Twitter stream onto your website or blog in near real time. The kicker is that threads conversations.  This provides a real focus on the conversation instead of a one-sided Tweet stream. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

TweetBoard home page

Twitter Lists continue to add interest to the Twitter experience.  Recently I found myself on a couple of people’s lists with the same name. The list was named Conversationalist. I thought, hmmm.  Am I really that conversational with that person?

Some time later I discovered that there is an application, named Conversationalist, that has been put to the task of making the lists.  All you have to do is sign up (Login via Twitter)  and it takes over, quite literally.

The ConversationaLIST - Click to visit

The ConversationLIST adds someone to the list if you @ someone. If you stop @ them, then they fall off the list. As they say on their site;

once someone follows your list, it means that they automatically see the tweets from the people that you’re sending @replies to, retweeting, or mentioning, so your tweets don’t appear in a vacuum. Your followers see what the people who influence you are saying on Twitter.

Is ConversationLIST helping you track the conversations that interest you?