TwerpScan.com - Manage Your Twitter Contacts

Looking back at the countless Twitter apps that are released on a daily basis, I realize that the ones for taking care of your Twitter following top the list. There is an explanation for that, namely how easy it is for that to escalate and for you to end up following more people than its right, for the mere reason most turn out to be utter, unconnected strangers.





What TwerpScan does is to check the number of followers that you have and see which ones are tweeple and which ones are, well, twerps. It does so by computing the ratio between the number of contacts you have, the number of people they are following, how often they tweet…. You can then proceed to have you contact list tidied up on the spot, by unfollowing them or even blocking the ones who are about as welcome as a pandemic.

Nothing new, I hear you say. But it is a free service (the one I reviewed yesterday, named TweeMaid was a paid one) and it has one of the best linguistic twists I have seen so far when it comes to playing with the word “Twitter” and related concepts.