The folks over at SocalBakers.com have an interesting little tool that identifies both fake/empty and inactive followers on your Twitter account. Just head over to their Fake Followers tool, enter your Twitter handle and authorize its access to your account. In my case it looks like just 9% of my followers are fake, while 23% are inactive (folks who don’t post all that much, but that doesn’t mean they’re not reading my content either.) Below your results will be a list of the fake followers which you can simply block individually or all with a single click. (Please be careful with that block all button. I found at least one co-worker in the list who would would not want to block.)
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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