How to De-Clutter Your Twitter Following

Decluttering your Twitter feed makes it easier and faster to read.

Twitter is supposed to be a fun, fast form of communication, but it's easy to get sucked into a vortex of meaningless tweets. If your signal-to-noise ratio has you drowning in a sea of meaningless 140-character updates, it's time to give your following and followers lists a spring cleaning, Plenty of free applications can help you clean out the clutter and streamline your Twitter experience.

Instructions

1. Use ManageFlitter to segment your followers into groups. You can see and unfollow users who aren't following you back, dump people who are especially quiet or talkative, or single out people with no profile image (a possible sign of spammers).

2. Identify and block spam followers with TwitBlock. This app scans your followers list for potential spammers and gives you the option to unfollow them all at once. It also reports the spammers to Twitter headquarters, which helps to control the spam problem.

3. Zap Twitter clutter with Nest Unclutterer. This app, developed by the editors of an anti-clutter website, allows you to block anyone who's following more than a certain number of users; accounts that follow a large amount of people are often spammers and marketers who don't truly read all the tweets in their feed. You can also use Nest Unclutterer to unfollow people who haven't tweeted in awhile.

Resources

• ManageFlitter
• TwitBlock
• Nest Unclutterer