Show HN: Grim Tweeper, easy way to clean up Twitter 'follow' lists

Post by tessr » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 6:44 PM UTC

jlees wrote: post #15

wsxiaoys wrote: post #2

Useful tool. Some advice: It seems the order of user is random, I hope there're some better algorithms to present the potential users I may want to kill. The activities of user, times of one user have been killed may count.

Indeed. I can manually remove people (sure, it isn't as fun) but you have a real opportunity to add value here. The criteria I look at when I do one of my periodic follower purges: * Do I know them personally? * Do I follow them back? * Have they tweeted recently? * Are their tweets content-laden or link spam? * (Where you can add value: Do other people unfollow this person frequently?)

Post by dshipper » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 7:19 PM UTC

bobabooey wrote: post #22

Admittedly, I didn't log in and actually try your site but from the looks of the landing page, why couldn't I just march down my timeline and essentially do the same thing? Where's the added value? Also, I can't see ever paying to use this. Sorry if I sound harsh...

Post by StavrosK » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 7:56 PM UTC

tessr wrote: post #7

raganwald wrote: post #5

I see a button to sign in with Twitter, but nothing to tell me what--if anything--you will do with any data you obtain from Twitter or from observing my activities using your application. I suggest you put your privacy policy right on the front page. If it's privacy-positive, I'd brag about it, e.g. "We'll never share your data with 419 scammers."

Good points. We are privacy positive, so we'll figure out a good way to convey that. Thanks!

Post by te_chris » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 9:03 PM UTC

plnewman wrote: post #12

Seems like all it does is iterate through my Twitter followers and ask me if I want to unfollow each one. I was a little disappointed, I was hoping it would tell me which ones never post anything or something slightly more useful.

Post by tessr » Mon, Apr 04, 2011, 9:32 PM UTC

Qz wrote: post #28

bauchidgw wrote: post #24

cool, now a tool to clean up my followers would be awesome. i believe 75percent of my followers are just parasitic twitter accounts. a way to get rid of them would be awesome

That's what I thought this was :(. I wasn't aware that people had the opposite problem!