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28/02 2009

Punch Inactive Users in the Face!

I love Twitter.

It makes life a little more interesting every day that you use it. There is one problem that I have been presented with over the course of the past few days. Inactive users.

Inactive users really upset me and when I say upset.. I am meaning… more along the lines of “wrong order at a restaurant” upset. I just don’t understand the point of spending time to add multiple people and then NOT using the tool every again. But that is their prerogative. (Thank you Ms. Spears)

I had a URL come across my Twitter Feed today to Twitoria. This is the first thing I read when I clicked through:

How many friends are you really following? Twitoria finds your friends that haven’t tweeted in a long time so you can give them the boot!

FINALLY… (unless I missed another one) a tool that allows you to delete people that are inactive on Twitter, something that really cleans up the mess of inactive users. I

I started using the tool and it has extremely easy functionality… it is pretty straight forward. While I was un-following the fifth or sixth person I realized… Why does this matter?

They don’t tweet.. They don’t flood my stream with stupid magpie tweets or worthless hard-sell links.. So why does it matter if I delete them or not?

I haven’t answered that question but it you are wanting to delete the number of people you are following.. Twitoria is a great tool to do that.

Now.. can somebody please create an application that allows me to auto un-follow Twitter idiots?

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  1. 28/02 2009

    It does work well, although the premise is… not all that useful.

  2. 28/02 2009

    I’m trying to find a Twitter client that’ll boot people I follow who insist on posting every intimate detail of their daily activities.

  3. 28/02 2009

    Sounds like a programmer should create a Twitter App that says “If a profile Tweets x# of updates, then unfollow”…

  4. 28/02 2009

    @Nicki good thought except for the people like me who post good stuff instead of just updates. :-)

    Maybe we could do a Twitter app that deletes anyone with the word food or bed. :-)

  5. 28/02 2009

    food and bed are two of the necessities of life Kyle. That would be like asking people to stop eating or sleeping…then how could they Twitter?