Whom to Follow on Twitter

October 12, 2009 by yelena
Filed under Articles, blog

I recently did a lot of unfollowing on Twitter. Not like I follow a huge number of people to begin with. So then why unfollow at all? Well, at some point I decided, in the interests of sticking to my Twitter time-budget and not staying up all night, to only follow those who are important in my business and marketing efforts.

Who is important? Well, you’ll have your own answers based on your business’ specific needs. Mine included clients (current and potential ones), joint venture partners, competitors, companies that provide software and services that I use for my business (or would like to try), industry-related events and training programs, and of course people who I consider my mentors (even though they don’t know about it).

Whoever is going to end up on your list, you can benefit from these tools to make your efforts of getting in touch and staying in touch easier and more streamlined:

Mr. Tweet – Show the influencers and followers you should follow and suggests you to enthusiastic users relevant to you.
Just Tweet It – A user directory for Twitter organized by genre to allow for users to easily find other Twitter users to connect with.
Retweet Rank – Retweetrank lets you find rank of any twitter user. With the rank, latest retweets of the user are shown and an RSS feed can also be grabbed for the same.
Twellow – A directory of public Twitter accounts, with hundreds of categories and search features to help you find people who matter to you.
TwitteRel – By using Twitterel.com you can make your life a lot more interesting, we thought of a way to connect to other twitter users who share the same interests as you do.
Friend or Follow – Who are you following that’s not following you back? Who’s following you that you’re not following back?
Twitoria – Twitoria is a web app that tidies up your Twitter friends list by revealing inactive friends that haven’t tweeted in a long time so you can unfollow them.
Topify – Twitter application that improves Twitter’s email notification and allows to follow and reply to direct messages by email.
Tweepler – A Twitter application that allows you to organize followers.
Twimailer – Tired of shallow e-mails from Twitter when someone follows you? Want to know more about the people who are following you? Twimailer is a free service that delivers that information right to your inbox!
TweeterTags – Get the most out of Twitter by finding the right people to share the conversation: Tweeter Tags makes it easy to declare your interests and find new, like-minded friends. Have a question you need answering? Find relevant people on Twitter to ask.