1) If people are not following you back, they are dead weight in your network – They don’t see your content!

2) People who do not follow you back have indicated they are not interested in communicating with you. Unless you have a passion for their content, find someone else to exchange information with,

3) The basic ratio for followers to non-followers on Twitter. Currently, you are limited to following 2001 Twitter accounts. When you have approximately 1,850 followers your ratio changes to approximately 20%. Meaning if you have 3,000 followers you can follow up to 3,600 people.

*Remember to be careful when following people, more than 500 a day can raise a flag with Twitter and result in account suspension!

Are you ready to get rid of those Bums not following you back? Check out the Twitter application BumKicker developed by Cleveland Groove to identify the people not following you back, and enable you to unfollow them with a simple click of the mouse (Kick of the Boot).

What do you do? Log in with your Twitter account. We will pull a list of the people not following your account back. Type in the code at the top to unlock the delete “Boot” and start Kicking those Bums to the Trash (unfollowing them). You can only kick one bum to the trash at a time, so pick and choose who you want to unfollow easily! BumKicker is in Public Beta right now. If you don’t like something, contact me.

The only auto-following behavior Twitter allows is auto-follow-back (following a user after they have followed you). Automated un-following is also not permitted. If you find yourself frequently needing to un-follow large numbers of users, you might consider reviewing your criteria for following them. Please review our Follow Rules and Best Practices for a detailed discussion of following recommendations. Twitter Rules. I do not believe Dossy violated Twitters Guidelines. Quite the opposite he enabled a manual bulk unfollowing system. There is nothing automatic in his process. Part of your criteria for Twitter should be the person you follow must follow you back, otherwise you are simple experiencing a one way conversation. Twitter, go after the bad guys and spammers, Dossy did not enable spamming or the ever so annoying auto DM, for the most part he built a very useful tool that enables you to quickly and easily manage your Twitter account.

In a perfect world (or at least community) we would all follow each other. I have seen this work with varying degree of effectiveness on some micro-communities I am a member of. There is a real world issue here I am still working thru, are you initiating contact? Do you contact your friends and network and check-in with them/make plans. It has become so easy to run thru life seeing people randomly or once a year, work and kids keep us so busy we become lazy with everything else. Find different ways to make plans, coffee before work, breakfast, lunch, drinks after work, a ballgame, meeting of mutual interest, workout at the gym. These are all easy ways to extend your social life. You don’t have to bulk unfollow the real world friends you have that do not make an effort to make plans; be a leader and make plans with them. Stay Social.