Social Media Maintenance: Twitter Timelines and Unfollows

When all you want is to clear inactive Twitter accounts for a cleaner experience, there is one service that makes it easy and qualifies as a most affordable option.

Untweeps finds accounts according to the number of days an account has been inactive, lets you pick from this list and unfollows your picks for you quickly, all via Twitter's API and according to Twitter's terms. A user can pay less than $2 US for three days of this service, which can then be used on multiple accounts. Of course, there are other packages available as well.

Because the tweets a user sees in their timeline relate to the accounts they follow, it's critical to ensure that you're not following inactive Twitter accounts. Do take care and visually scan: you don't want to blindly unfollow actual interests who may only tweet once each quarter, or only become active during political events, for example.

All it takes is a quick scan down each page of inactive accounts that Untweeps returns to your query, during which time you'll be able to "whitelist" certain accounts to be saved from deletion during subsequent maintenance routines.

Try Untweeps today, and enjoy an improved Twitter timeline tomorrow.