Unfollow people who are not following you

Last week I learnt that one well known way to increase the number of followers in Twitter is to follow as many people as you can. Chances are that finally a ratio of them (in our experiment something around one third) will follow you back.

The problem is that you cannot hide the truth, anybody who visits your Twitter page, will see the number of following is much bigger than the followers.

SocialOOMPH has a tool that automatically unfollows people who unfollow you. Assuming that some of our followers are using this tool, we should not unfollow our followers. But it seems to be perfectly safe to unfollow people who are not following you.

I spent an hour or so in the weekend to take a look at Twitter API and write a small program that does this job. I quite amazed by the simplicity of Twitter API, now I wonder why aren't we in our company spending time to study it in more details. It's interesting that it seems the guys in Twitter have had similar naming problems to ours. For example in the API terminology the people who you are following, are your 'friends'.

My program is a simple C# Console application and you need .NET Framework 3.5 to run it. Download Unfollow people who are not following me program here.