Twitter Helper

There are times you need to check your twitter followers/following ratio to counter the 'Follow limit' restriction placed by twitter for reducing user/system abuse. Everyone is allowed to follow 2000 people. After that, follow limits are based on the number of people who are following you. i.e. the Followers/Following ratio must be equal to (or) greater than 1 (one). Say you're following 2000 people, but only have 1500 followers, means you can't follow any more people until you get your Followers/Following ratio right. There are only 2 ways to get this right:

A) Make other people follow you (by updating your twitter timeline with quality tweets, by re-tweeting other people's tweet, by inviting anyone you know to join you as a follower). But, this'll be tough I know.

B) Better way to do tackle this problem is by cutting away people who're not following you back (but still in your following list) or by leaving away people with no account activity for months or even weeks. If you've reached a follow limit, you can help yourself by reducing your following number until it resembles your followers number. Since the follow limit is based on Followers/Following ratio rather than time, you'll have to un-follow people before you're able to follow again.

But there ain't a easy way to track the user who's not following you back or with less or no account activity over time. But there is a simple, free website/application helps you to do this fairly effortlessly. It's named FriendOrFollow. You can also find out who's following you that you're not following back.



All you've to do is: Enter your twitter user name in FriendOrFollow and click 'Submit' button. You'll taken to the page where you can see who you're following (but not followed back by them), who're your fans/followers (but not followed by you) and who're your friends (means mutually following). You can also list the users by their user name, name, location, followers/following numbers, last tweet, account age tags. To tackle the twitter follow limit problem, you just have to click the 'Following' tab and double click (or open in new window/tab) the user you like to remove/un-follow. That's it. This page is updated in real time. So the results are showing in your twitter profile instantly. Enjoy!

Twitter's new kid on the block: FastFollowers - A Virtual marketplace for followers.

If you're desperately looking for a way to build your twitter follower base, here is the nice little site that will do the trick for you.

All you've to do is:

i) Enroll yourself at FastFollowers

ii) Earn credits for following people (Usually from 2 to 5, up-to 10 allowed)

iii) In return, you'll get followers for your earned credits (Tip: You can set the credit limit: as usual 0 to 10. "4" worked fine for me)

Here's a little illustration provided by them:



That's it. Simple but effective. With little time and effort, you can increase  your twitter followers base quickly as well as consistently and more importantly ethically. Icing on the cake: It's completely free too (Optional: You may buy credits or get "Featured user slot for a day" - Only if you don't want to follow people).

Get in and reap the benefits.

More details about this program can be found at their FAQ section.

Note: Only today morning I enrolled on this site and already get 50 odd followers. Needless to say, I already took the "Blog about them Offer" too to get 100 credits!