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Prune your Follows — Does your Twitter timeline bring you joy?
Use Prune you Follows to find Twitter accounts that no longer bring you joy and make room for new connections to grow. Quickly find overpopular, unpopular, overactive and inactive accounts with our ready-made filters, or do a text search for any keyword.
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I can't tell you how excited I am to see a tool like this! Removing the noise from my Twitter TL has been a years-long project and this is going to make that so much easier.
@mjwhansen and you had such good suggestions will try to implement in the new year as much as the Twitter API allows.
@raae it is great, just logged in and felt like I need to spend more time on this. Can I see the stats of my own profile like I see the profiles I follow. I want to know how people decide to prune on my profile as well :)
@milkers I like that, we'll make sure to add that when we build out a profile page! Right now the app is rate limited by Twitter so you might want to some of the exploring another day 🤪
I pruned 50+ followers the first day. Highly recommended to keep your ratio and feed pruned and tidy!
And the four groups of suggestions are great – they help me focus on who to unfollow not just get my numbers down.
@joemasilotti do you remember where you found the most potential unfollows? unactive, overactive, overpopular or unpopular?
Congrats on launching @raae! I have used this a couple of times in the past and it worked great for me, I could easily identify accounts that inactive and that I probably should not follow any more :)
I also love the new gardening design :)
@tudor_g thank you, moving forward you'll see more gardening tool as it seems folks don't merely want to unfollow - they want to organize their follows.
Love this! I'm always pruning my follows manually which takes a bunch of time, so nice to have a little help :) Congrats @raae!
This worked perfectly for working through my Twitter list. I liked the groupings and interactions in the app.
Congrats on the launch! 🚀
@colbyfayock thanks a bunch - let us know if you have any feature requests for 2023
I've used other tools to unfollow accounts in the past, and on the first test, I like the UI of this tool. Simple and easy to identify accounts in different categories to unfollow.
Improvements:
- Looking forward to being able to unfollow 50 accounts per 15 minutes.
- Add a way to select multiple profiles at a time (up to max displayed) and unfollow all with one click.
- Add filters for "most engaged" and "least engaged"
Nice work and congrats on the launch @raae
👋 Hello, I am a Developer, Streamer and Indie Hacker who loves to jam together side projects for fun and profit.
🤬 After 15 years on Twitter I hit the very frustrating 5000 follows limit on Twitter. Finding accounts to unfollow turned out to be super hard. Your only view of the accounts is in an infinite scrollable list with recently followed on top. Those are the opposite of the accounts I would like to unfollow.
🎉 My solution: Prune your Follows 🎉
🌱 Use Prune you Follows to find Twitter accounts that no longer bring you joy and make room for new connections to grow.
"OMG this is amazing! I've already unfollowed almost 50 accounts!" - @joemasilotti on Twitter
🔎 Quickly find overpopular, unpopular, overactive and inactive accounts with our ready-made filters, or do a search in your follows username, name, description and location for any keyword.
⏳ No need to wait until you follow 5000 accounts like me. Regularly prune your follows to make sure your timeline is filled with what you actually want to see.
🦋 Prune your follows is proudly powered by Xata - Xata is a serverless database with built-in powerful search and analytics. One API, multiple type-safe client libraries, and optimized for your development workflow.
💭 Still not finding the correct accounts to unfollow? Let us know the filters you would like to see us add in 2023 in a comment below.
@joemasilotti @raae Prune Your Follows sounds like a fantastic way to manage one's Twitter account more efficiently - good job on coming up with the idea
Awesome example of solving your own problem then putting something out into the world to help others! Nice work @raae!
@geofftroberts thank you - you know I just can't stay away from a good side project.
Well, I love the concept, but, after my first unfollow, I keep getting warnings that I'm unfollowing too quickly.
@fascinating_monsters the whole app has been rate limited by Twitter for facilitating too many unfollows in 24 hours. Come back tomorrow and it should be all good!
This is such a cool product. It was a trip down memory lane to review some of the folks that I followed a long time ago that never really tweet anymore. Great way to raise the signal and lower the noise. 👏
Wow, Raae! That's really useful. Thanks for making it and congratulations on the launch.
Congrats on the launch! This is looking amazing. I usually keep my following count low (269 right now) but still this helped me unfollow 8 or 9 accounts just now :D
@almavi great news, the list of follows on Twitter gets long to scroll pretty fast!
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