My Favorite Twitter Tools: Less Friends
This week I’m going to delve into my favorite new social media addiction: Twitter. I’ve already blogged about “How Twitter Saved Me $55″ and “Twitterizing Your Ministry”. This week I’m going to blog about my favorite Twitter accessories — tools for making Twitter more usable…and fun. Today’s Twitter tool is called Less Friends.
“Less friends?” you ask, “I thought Twitter was for making more friends?”
True. But in Twitter, as in life, there are one-way relationships that drag us down. You know what I’m talking about: a “friend” you’re investing a lot in — phone calls, dinner invitations, how-ya-doin’ emails — but your efforts go unrecipricated. Your “friend” never calls, never invites you to do anything, and never replies to your emails. Sadly, this kind of one-way relationship occurs in Twitter too. That’s where Less Friends comes in.
Less Friends is a tool that shows you your one-way “friends”, your “mutual followings,” and those people who want to be your friend, but to this point you’ve only given them the Heisman treatment (i.e. a stiff-arm to the chops).
Here’s how it works:
1. Go to www.lessfriends.com.
2. Chuckle at the Twitter birds’ conversation at the top of the page.
3. Enter your Twitter information and click “Show me my friends.”
4. Now, browse through your list of friends — and so-called friends — and find out who really loves you!
In my list, I can see numerous true friends, such as @Ameriboo_britt, @Josh_Ray, and @mrbill9999. I see a few people who want to be my friend and I need to stop being a jerk to them: @CoolTop, @Harsgwl, and @westhorp. And finally, yes, I do have some one-way relationships that I need to consider cutting off: @natedavis, @shawnwood, and @gregsurratt (my own pastor!).
Now, take a look at your friends list. Any one-way relationships? Is it time to trim your Twitter friends tree?…
