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 currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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