What your follower count says about you OR How to quietly dust off your flakey followINGs: Untweeps.com Twitter Review
Whether you are a web pro or brand new to twitter, you already know that people judge you based on your follower count. But that's not all. Potentially new followers also judge you on your followING count.
You see, if 5 people follow you, a potentially new follower who just happend to find you will think, "sheesh, do I want to sit in the center of a big high school gym on metal folding chairs with four other people and THIS GUY as my sponsor?"
On the other hand, if a twerson you're considering following has 10,000 followers, You tend to think, "Cool! This guy's got it goin ahwun - I wanna peece o'dat!"
You tend to comfort yourself in the knowledge that there must be wisdom in numbers -- UNTIL you notice that he's also got 50,000 that he's following! By my count, 1 of 5 people will automatically just follow you back for doing nothing more than following them. So guys with a 50,000:10,000 ratio are basically being followed by 10:000 zombies who never read their stream.
In fact, even the fastest reader with the fastest computer can only effectively read a maximum of 3,000 tweeple. So this tells me that anyone (with the exception of @unmarketing who freakishly appears to read and respond to everyone!) following over 2,000 tweeple will never read my tweets even if they follow me.
To you, this means that if you have a lot of people you are following or if you follow more people than are following you, I'm not going to follow you. At all.
To you, this means that if you have a lot of people you are following or if you follow more people than are following you, I'm not going to follow you. At all. You become that awkward girl in college who asks everyone for their phone number but never gets invited anywhere and takes comfort in the fact that while nobody likes you, you have a lot of phone numbers.
So, you're going to have to take a #2 clipper fender and trim down that following count. My favorite way to quietly burn off my "following cellulite" is to cut them by date of last tweet. Generally, people who only tweet once a week don't teach, inform, alert you of anything value. And if you follow them, it just makes you look fat and bloated. Worse yet, if you follow people who don't tweet often, it makes you look like you don't have a clue. You'll never get an audience looking like that.
How then, do you go about unfollowing only people who have not tweeted in 5, 6, or 7 days? You'll find that Twitter does not offer any way to sort followings by last tweet date. Yep. This is why I'm reviewing http://untweeps.com
You become that awkward girl in college who asks everyone for their phone number
Here's my review: Background makes words hard to read. Only 8% of the users will ever find the page shown below where you can custom set your "inactive days" preference. $10 a year is too cheap. I manage my followINGs every day. I'd pay $3 every day, everytime i cut away in active excess baggage tweeple. Plus, I think the subscription thing will scare people away -- even if it's only annual.
I recommend @rlamfink make a deal with a UI designer to redo his presentation in exchange for checkbox follow option for everyone who uses http://untweeps.com. I recommend one of these people be you. I am.
I'm telling you. Untweeps.com is the best kept secret. I bet 92% of you will never even find this page! Insert Evil Laughter Here
