As you spend more time on Twitter, one of the challenges is keeping track and managing the people who follow you.
While Twitter provides e-mail notifications about a new follower, you have to click through to their Twitter profile to determine if that person is worth following back.
Fortunately, there are a growing number of tools to make the follow or no-follow decision easier. One of them is TweetSum, which shows who is following you and an info box that shows who they are, and some of their recent posts. You can decide to follow the person back or not.
TweetSum also shows people that you’re following, and gives you the ability to unfollow them by dragging their names in a “Meh” column.
While TweetSum offers some good features, what’s confusing is new followers are ranked using something called “DBI” (or Douche Bag Index). TweetSum explains the higher the number, the more likely they will be to Twitter users.
While I guess DBI (a terrible name) has some merit, TweetSum should offer other ways to let you look at new followers such as “most recent”, “most followers”, “posting activity” or “location”.
If given the choice, I’d probably stick with Friend or Follow than TweetSum.
Who’s Finding You, and Should You Follow Back
While Twitter provides e-mail notifications about a new follower, you have to click through to their Twitter profile to determine if that person is worth following back.
Fortunately, there are a growing number of tools to make the follow or no-follow decision easier. One of them is TweetSum, which shows who is following you and an info box that shows who they are, and some of their recent posts. You can decide to follow the person back or not.
TweetSum also shows people that you’re following, and gives you the ability to unfollow them by dragging their names in a “Meh” column.
While TweetSum offers some good features, what’s confusing is new followers are ranked using something called “DBI” (or Douche Bag Index). TweetSum explains the higher the number, the more likely they will be to Twitter users.
While I guess DBI (a terrible name) has some merit, TweetSum should offer other ways to let you look at new followers such as “most recent”, “most followers”, “posting activity” or “location”.
If given the choice, I’d probably stick with Friend or Follow than TweetSum.