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Qwitter: A Twitter Unfollow Notifier
Ed Kohler

Qwitter: Catching Twitter quittersI've mentioned previously that it would be helpful if Twitter users received better feedback on unfollow requests. Basically, let people know when their followers are dropping so they can at least know that they're burning people out, pissing them off, or underdeliverying in some other way.

Well, now you can do with with Qwitter. After signing up with the service, you'll receive an email alert every time you lose a follower. In addition, it will send along a copy of the last tweet you sent before being unfollowed, which may give you an indication of what it is that you said that generated the unfollow request.

The last post may not be the final straw, but I doubt many people lose followers based on a single tweet. More likely, the follower wasn't getting the type of content they were expecting for a while and they just happened to be near a computer (where it's easier to unfollow) at the time.

Personally, I think this is a great new feature that should help improve the quality of Twitter over time. A little negative feedback can go a long ways.

As far as positive feedback goes, check out Favrd, where you can track the "most favorited" tweets on Twitter.




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1. Posted by: Luke Francl on October 20, 2008 11:05 AM:

You can also use follow cost to figure out why people might want to stop following you.




2. Posted by: Terence on April 19, 2009 11:45 AM:

For all the tools and discussion about unfollowing, I haven't seen anything to help me understand why I should care. I will unfollow someone if their posts don't interest me, and assume others will do the same for me. I don't unfollow people that stop posting because it makes no difference to me, and I don't believe I would alter what I tweet because someone chose to unfollow me.




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