So, it turns out the @fansoftech account was the victim of a “bug,” according to the Twitter support team.
Earlier this year, we noticed that the number of people we were following on Twitter was consistently rising. Here’s the problem with that: only one person manages that account, yours truly, and I wasn’t following these people.
So, a support ticket was made on Twitter’s support site and 2 quick, um, weeks later, we had a response waiting for us: it’s a bug… sorry about that.
Anyway, that left me with hundreds of people to unfollow. (Sorry but I actually pay attention to my Twitter stream and following masters of MLM doesn’t help me out at all.)
Regardless, this might normally entail navigating through pages and pages of people and manually unfollowing each of them if it weren’t for Twitter’s abundantly-used API. Here’s what I did:
Using My Tweeple, I exported an entire list of those I was following and those following me, pulled it into Excel and removed everyone with whom I was unfamiliar.
Once I had the list, I took it straight to the recently-released Nest.Unclutterer, added the entries to the whitelist option and proceeded to unfollow everyone we needed to. Of course, we could only unfollow dozens at a time but it certainly took less time than doing each individually.
Random Twitter app to the rescue once again.
