To get the most out of Twitter you will at some point have to rely on an outside website (or web tool) to provide some help. As you grow in popularity and add new followers it becomes difficult to manage the growing amount of friends within the twitter application. Twitter no longer allows a “bulk” follow or “unfollow” so it may take using a website to find the friends that no longer use twitter or never follow you back. Check out these 5 necessary tools.

Friend or Follow

I have relied on this site for some time now, it will display friends, who is not following you back, user metrics, and charts. This site also does not ask for a Twitter ID and PW.

Local Follow

I find this site to be very useful and helpful when you want to find great tweeps in your area. You can search by location, name, tweets and even key words in a bio.

Refollow

This tool allows a user to search followers with a very robust set of categories. You can search users that have not tweeted in a specific amount of time to complete information about the user following you or not.

Untweeps

This site displays your followers that have not posted a tweet in some time, or stopped using Twitter.

Bit.ly

Finally, I am adding Bit.ly as I feel it is one of the most comprehensive URL shortener tools out. It gives the choice for a “Pro” service, charts, metrics, and clicks to a link from you and total from other users.

I know there are thousands of sites out there that can perform the same tasks above. I tried to only post the sites that have a secure login, and I have used for a period of time without any issues. If you have any sites that you use post a comment and let me know!

Colin