Four More Twitter Account Cleaners
Last week, I started looking at tools for managing Twitter followers and keeping your Twitter account spam free. Here are the last four tools I tested.
Twerpscan quickly scanned my follower list and presented them in a neat table, with stars next to those I was following. To unfollow, you just click on a star or click on a star outline to follow a Twitter user. Before making your decision click on a user to see more information, including the latest tweet. You can sort the Twerpscan table by any of the headings, such as follower count, following count, number of tweets and date of last tweet. You can also do bulk operations (block, follow, unfollow) by selecting checkboxes. One strange thing is that the follower list didn’t update automatically when I had done this, so I was never sure that the process had worked, but it had, as I found out when I accessed Twitter via the web.
Once you’re signed in to Twitblock, just click a button to scan your follower database for spam accounts. The application rates your followers for spamminess (out of 1000) and highlights the spammiest ones in red so you can block them. Two links give you the option to mark users as ‘not spam’ or to look further at stats for the account. From this interface you can choose to block and report. The application also keeps track of those you have already blocked. This tool is easy to use and integrates well with Twitter.
Nest Unclutterer is a bit different. It allows you to highlight accounts following more than a certain amount of people (I’ve got it set at 1,500, but you can change this figure. You can also search for people who haven’t tweeted recently. There’s also a box to whitelist certain users so that you don’t accidentally block someone you really want to be in contact with. Click ‘clean my nest’ and you get a list of Twitter users who meet the criteria. Click the ones you want to whitelist, then click the button to unfollow and block the rest. Don’t worry, you do get another chance to whitelist those users before the blocking becomes permanent.
The TwitCleaner takes quite a while to scan your follower list and sends you a DM when your profile is ready. It then segments your list in a no-nonsense way, like this:
- Dodgy Behavior (trying to sell you crap, nothing but links, multiple @s)
- Left Twitter (inactive accounts)
- Ignoring You
- All Talk, All the Time
- Secretive
To save anyone from deletion, click on the icons, or click a link to save an entire category. They will be greyed out, then you can quickly unfollow the rest. This looks like a really useful tool, but it needs cookies to save your info and although both browsers I tested it with accepted cookies, I couldn’t get past the ‘enable cookies’ message.
The Verdict
If you simply want to get rid of dormant followers, then MyCleenr is the quickest tool, followed by Nest Unclutterer for those with more than 700 followers. If you need to get rid of spammy accounts, then the Twit Cleaner looked most promising, but TwitBlock worked best. What tools have you used to keep your Twitter accounts clean?
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Four More Twitter Account Cleaners
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