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Unladen Follow (a tool to cut the fat out of your Twitter stream)

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22 pointsdanilocampos10 comments

I wonder if this correctly calculates what tweets I get to see (replying to someone I also follow). Also, would be nice if it also showed retweets in the table.

If you analyze your current follow list it will represent exactly the tweets you see including the appropriate replies. In the "look up a user" mode, it will exclude all replies due to API limitations.

This is a great tool! Measuring your Tweet load in Scoble units is brilliant. I'm unfollowing my top 4. I can't bear to unfollow #5, @gapingvoid at 150 tweets/week. After that, the next 4 are going, and #10 @mike_ftw gets to stay with his 82 tweets. Not bad at all, I feel like this is really going to help me focus on the neglected long tail of people I follow who don't tweet 20+ times a day.

Hugh McLeod is a sad, insecure, self-obsessed man of such vacuous character as to inspire immediate depression. Really, ubfollow him too.

Tch. Sorry you feel that way. I like his stuff.

Sure, I understand. For me, there's only so much empty retweeting of blind praise, along with brittle, white knuckle cries of "douchebag" against anyone with the temerity ever to express disagreement, that I'm able to stomach. Hugh pretty much blows through a lifetime quota in about a week.

Honestly, I feel so sad for this guy I want to puke and sob and nap all at the same time. I've never felt more gut wrenching pity for someone I haven't met not living in abject poverty. He's a useful cautionary tale but not a great follow.

"This is equivalent to following Robert Scoble 17 times"

haha

What's the difference between a laden and an unladen follow?

Is it a coconut laden follow?

Via this earlier thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973732

Good way to objectively measure the obnoxiousness of your stream. Pretty accurate – the top ten included all the noisy people who I've considered unfollowing in the past.

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