Getting Rid of Twitter Litter

The other day instead of using Hootsuite, which all my reader’s know I adore, I actually went to one of my Twitter accounts to see what my ratio of followers and following was and I did not like what I saw.  I have a 365 page on FB like a trillion other real estate agents do.  It is geared to a certain area and I like to follow and have followers that are more on a personal level.  I knew it was time to clean out the arteries of that particular Twitter account so I set up for an angioplasty.

It was the holiday weekend so I decided to just go name by name and unfollow.  The first to go were all my little Bieber following teens.   Bieber doesn’t live in the Greater Tampa area, so they needed to go.  I do have a friend who is his sound man in NYC. I possibly could be bribed to mention when he will be in the studio again, but then I would lose a friend.  *sigh*

After they were gone I moved on to what my good friend, Mike Mueller, calls his “Scary People” list.  As I went through my followers I found some very scary people.

I am a REALTOR so I cannot go into the details of what I define as scary, take it from me, if you would not call that person on the phone, or want them in your car as a client, that pretty much paints you a picture.

I did come across some that gave me pause to think, and then I let them stay.  The reason I kept them is because I happen to live one county north of many clothing optional resorts and developments.  I kept the nudists, after all I have a very good friend whose entire niche of clients are those who go sans clothing.  I can see referral fees there, so I am glad they follow me, I just don’t plan to follow them (into the resorts.)

I like to be up close and personal in social media, I wiped out 800 followers that day, took about an hour. I would never recommend doing this if you have huge numbers of followers.  Obviously that would be difficult and waste precious time.  I googled to see what programs are out there that allegedly do this for you, and I would really like some feedback – has anyone tried one of the programs that promise results?

I have 4 other Twitter accounts that need cleaning up, and I could use some help.

I do have Social Oomph and I admit I let it slide.  I can vet people there, so I will return to doing that, catching the scary people and the Bieber fans as they appear because I really like to have followers that fit well in what I Tweet about.

By the way I do get it that some of you might be close to having a seizure at the thought of decreasing your numbers – I get that, but I promise you it is a good feeling to at least remove the scary people. Baby steps, take baby steps!

And come fly with me again soon.

Carole

Carole Sanek is a REALTOR in the Greater Tampa Bay area and Director of Marketing for Castle Dream Real Estate. Carole has been in real estate since 1995 in both Indiana and Florida.  She specialized in waterfront second-home sales in the panhandle for years and she and her husband now specialize in the international market in Florida.
Carole’s social media experience started with blogging 5 years ago, and has expanded into hosting multiple pages on Facebook, managing 4 Twitter accounts, LinkedIn and 4 other blogs besides being a contributing writer on Social Media Advocate.

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