Leo Guinan

Who Should I Unfollow? - Clean up the accounts you are following on Twitter

How many dormant accounts do you follow on Twitter? Quickly identify them and unfollow them with this application.

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Tom Johnson
Seems pretty useful, but the permissions it's requesting are beyond what I'd agree to. Why does it need permissions to post, DM, create lists, like, and do anything other than follow and unfollow accounts?
Leo Guinan
@tomjohndesign Unfortunately, I need to use Oauth1.1 for authentication and it doesn't give me fine-tuned permission checks. I will look at the DMs though, I think that is offered as an option to disable. If I included that, it was a mistake. I initially built it using Twitter's OAuth 2 authentication, but that is unfortunately buggy right now and wasn't stable enough have the product built on it.
Leo Guinan
@tomjohndesign thanks for the heads up! I did have the level of read/write with DMs checked instead of just read/write. So I adjusted that down a level. But that's unfortunately as much as I can reduce the scope of permissions.
Joshua Wöhle
@tomjohndesign agreed. I went to sign-up but instantly stopped in my tracks because of that
Tom Johnson
@leo_guinan Good to know, thanks for looking into that.
Dany Chepenko
Hey @makers, it seems the product doesn't work as expected. I paid for the $5/mo subscription and got the infinite redirect loop when I got to the starting page. Kindly check out the recording https://www.loom.com/share/ea5e2...
Leo Guinan
@makers @daniel_chepenko Yeah, definitely shouldn't be doing that! I'm looking into it now, thanks for letting me know!
Leo Guinan
@makers @daniel_chepenko issue should be fixed now! Thanks again for letting me know!
Dany Chepenko
@makers @leo_guinan nice, thanks works on my end
Dany Chepenko
Hye, an additional bug request. The "Manage my account button" is still inactive. Can you check it out?
Leo Guinan
@daniel_chepenko I'll check that out, thanks for the heads up!
Kevon Cheung
Been looking for a tool like this for a long time. Thank you Leo!!
Leo Guinan
@kevonc Thanks Kevon! Love to hear that!
Leo Guinan
Several months ago, I was on Twitter and went to follow someone, only to get blocked. Turns out, I had hit their magical limit of 5000 accounts followed and wasn't allowed to follow anyone else. So I started going through the painstaking process of looking back through the accounts I followed to clear them out. And as I was doing so, I realized that a number of the accounts I followed hadn't tweeted in months. And this product was born. So I analyze your account to let you know how many dormant accounts you follow, with "dormant" being defined as no original tweets in the last 3 months (I don't count retweets). You can get the account analysis for free and if you want to see the dormant accounts, you can pay $1/month to get access to those accounts. There is also a $5/month tier that can automatically unfollow dormant accounts for you each month and opens up access to be able to unfollow multiple accounts at once. Or, alternatively, you can pay a 1 time $5 fee to get a single month of access, during which you can perform all the actions on the app and just don't have to worry about monthly payments. Please let me know if you have any questions! I'm happy to answer them!
Sven Radavics
Nice work Leo. Another very useful product!
Leo Guinan
@sven_radavics Thanks Sven! Really appreciate that!
Ken Savage
I wish there was an one time option only. I don’t need another monthly expense even if it’s just one dollar.
Leo Guinan
@kensavage There is a one-time option. It's the $5 tier, because it gives you the ability to remove a lot at once. But I know how that goes and I did want to offer that one-time charge. It's at the bottom of the pricing page, so I probably need to do a better job on the display there.
Inderpreet Singh
Quite useful!!
Andrew Mutavdzija
Interesting way to define “analysis for free.” I think a reasonable interpretation of that is that, for free, I could see something like “You follow ___ accounts and ___ of them are dormant.” This would help the user identify a “problem” exists. And for obvious reasons, the “solution,” e.g. the ability to know which are dormant and to take the action of unfollowing them, are behind the paywall. So, to try it out and be sent directly from logging in Twitter -> analysis -> paywall feels rather misleading. Not even the non-actionable data I mentioned above displayed? I think your description conveyed the service in a different way than it operates in practice.
Leo Guinan
@andym_dc That part is available for free. I definitely need to improve the UX there though because you aren't the first to mention that you didn't see it. If you go here: https://app.whoshouldiunfollow.c..., you can see those numbers. I'm working on a new flow that should make that clearer. Completely agree that you should be able to see those numbers before making a purchase and that was my goal, just missed the mark on making it obvious enough. Thanks for the feedback!