Managing Twitter followers can become a time taking task, taking time away from actually sending messages and growing your influence. Some tools are below to save you time-

Twepe:

A little gem of a tool. Twepe, for a small cost, sends you a daily summary email of your Twitter follower activity, including new followers and lost followers, and alerts you immediately with an email of any mentions. The one alert it doesn’t send is favorite tweets.

Twitter can do some of these things – but individually, so you receive an individual email for each follower gained and any mentions. This can become overwhelming – personally I turn most Twitter notifications off and use Twepe instead.

Uses of Twepe include analyzing who you should follow back and spotting Twitter bots that follow you one day, and unfollow the next in the hope you have followed them back.

Usequitter:

Similar to Twepe, but sending a weekly summary. Free now – with a planned paid version for multiple accounts.

Followerwonk:

Followerwonk offers several tools. You can analyze and chart your followers by age, message volume and other metrics; view and sort all of your followers in a spread sheet format, allowing you to see the most influential or least active; search Twitter bios of your followers and their followers; compare followers and analyze their activity, and unfollow without leaving the site.

There are lots of other Twitter tools are available – these are just a few that have useful features or have proved stable over time. No matter what tools you use, check what permission they request of your account before granting them, and, if you stop using them, log in into the Twitter site and remove their access.

Source: Searchenginewatch

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