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It'd be great if I could automatically block spam accounts that follow me, as opposed to the current option of just automatically not following them back.

It'd be better still if these spammers could be identified based on following/follower ratio and topics that they tweet on as well as by presence on the blacklist.

I had been thinking about an automated method for sifting out most of the spammers.

Here is what I see (not sure if it's prohibitive due to too many API calls somehow):

1) Let the user enter threshold values for the 3 values used below,
as well as possible exclusion keywords (e.g. "liberal", "conservative", "God", etc.)
to check against the bio text.

2) For each new follower, fetch their extended info (1 call, no?), parse the XML,
and then do the following checks on it

foreach ($exclusion_word as $ew) { if (preg_match('!$ew!', $biotext)) $exclusion=1; }

3) if OR $exclusion=1

// people don't follow them back
OR friends / followers > 2 (default, your user can adjust to his/her liking)

// they have few updates, as well as 10 x the followers than updates, -> "spammy"
OR (updates < 50 AND followers / updates > 10)

THEN - Do NOT follow (i.e. "continue"), and possibly put them in a "quarantine" email
for the manual processing you just developed.

ELSE follow

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Do you think this could work?

Best - Alex Schleber

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When I revive my email with the list of new followers and people no longer following. I'd like to have an option to click a link, and take all of the new followers and post a #FollowFriday and maybe something evil for the un-followers. make up your own hastag for that. :-p thanks. Dev.

In the lower section of the report, where you list the new follows and unfollows, you really ought to consider using a real simple HTML table to format that part of the report.

It would make it much more readable and usable ...

It would be helpful in the email feedback of followers & unfollowers to state which date the stats represent as they seem to be one to two days behind. Love SocialToo! Keep up the good work! www.twitter.com/supahstah

I'd really like to have control over when and how frequently I get my stats report.

• option to set how many reports per day at scheduled times or preset intervals


• either by default or as an option, no report generates unless there is activity


• option to get unfollow reports immediately, like qwitter

I'd love it if I could filter my auto-follow so that I auto follow only
those with a "grade" above 80 (twitter.grader.com).

Hi Jessie,

Can you add the ability to send a message with a few questions or options to people who have unfollowed me?

Is this possiblilty in the works?

It would be helpful to know why people unfollow,
so adjustments could be made if appropriate.

Thank you,

jeff

I'd love to see blip.fm in the services you offer: follow/unfollow type of deal

A great twitter tool would be a report you could run that displayed people you follow that haven't updated in X days.

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Add tracked search terms to nightly report. Also possible, send on-demand e-mails when search terms are detected.

Add ability to schedule tweets

Add ability to search for keywords, terms, and by location, and auto-tweet people that use those terms within x miles of given location

I would suggest a simple write in with say up to five short text fields so that a question of the form:
Name three people who blah blah...
text1 (16-32 chars)
text2 (16-32 chars)
etc

In the daily reports (or semi-daily reports) all of the URLs should actually be clickable URLs. For example you list the new followers, and who unfollowed, and you provide the URL of their twitter home page ... but those URLs are not clickable links ...

Make all URLs in the e-mail clickable ...

1. One email that lists all the follows and unfollows for the day.
2. follow and unfollow report includes clickable links
3. password protected page for my stats