I wanted to keep our “Following” list neat and follow users that actually consistently use Twitter. Twitter isn’t a popularity contest for us. I wanted to find a way to remove inactive users, or people that haven’t tweeted in ages, so it would be easier to have effective conversations with other Twitterers and strengthen the A2 Hosting community. Twitoria is the perfect tool to find those inactive people.

Twitoria will pull a list of everyone that has been inactive on your following list for the past week, 2 weeks, month, 2 months, 6 months or past year. I think removing someone who has been inactive for the past week is very excessive, but taking a good look at who has been inactive for the past 6 months is definitely worthwhile. Twitter is obviously a great social networking tool, but only when others are contributing to it.

To another year of twittering fun, Happy New Year!

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I just really wish this site was around when I was in college!

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It had gotten to the point with the A2 Hosting Twitter account that the direct message feature was useless. It was so cluttered with these SPAM messages that I couldn’t even find the legitimate messages of people who wanted to actually correspond with us.

Are you fed up with these useless direct messages too? I discovered the solution! It turns out that the majority of these messages are automated and sent by using the service SocialOOmph. Luckily this site also allows you to opt out from receiving future messages from anyone that uses their service. I opted out last week and have not received one spammy direct message since. To opt out follow these instructions:

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When I opted out, I also wanted a fresh start with an empty direct message box free from hundreds of spam messages. Twitter doesn’t really offer a good way to clean out your direct message box quickly. Instead, use SocialOOmph’s Mailbox Purge feature. Run this resource and everything in your direct message box will be deleted giving you a fresh start too.

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