Not having the New Follower email for the past couple of days made me think about how often I need to know about new followers. I decided that getting an email alert seconds after someone starts to follow me is overkill and becomes a distraction, especially when the new follower is a spammer, which is about 50% of the time for me.
How about adding a consolidated version of that email with two options: weekly and monthly. Most discussion forums include this type of "digest'" option and I think it would work perfectly here.
Many people are turning off the 'New Follower' e-mail because of the spam-bot's that have invaded Twitter in the past few weeks. This solves the spam problem but it's really hard to find recent followers who are legitimate friends.
We really need a feature for analyzing recent followers. This would go a long way towards controlling the spam. Here’s a proposal for how this feature would work...
Click a button called 'Analyze New Followers'. I suggest that this button shows up on the Followers page.
User is asked: ‘New followers since when?’
Options for this are presented in a drop-down box with these options
- in the past day
- in the past 3 days
- in the past week
- in the past month
- show everyone that I’m not following
After making the selection, a sortable list is presented showing:
* User ID (links to Profile page)
* Number for Followers, Following, and Followers / Following Ratio
* Profile photo
* URL of the new Follower’s Web Site (if they have one)
* Flag users who have a high level of blocking (Twitter - is this info available?)
* Date that they started following you
* How many people have they followed in the past 24hours
* The last few tweets from each new follower (make this a mouse-over option)
Finally, the list should include checkboxes / buttons for bulk following or blocking.
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