{"id":559,"date":"2009-10-10T20:53:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T01:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adam-jackson.net\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-10-10T20:53:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T01:53:16","slug":"tweetblocker-im-not-as-cool-but-its-so-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2009\/10\/10\/tweetblocker-im-not-as-cool-but-its-so-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 TweetBlocker. I&#8217;m not as Cool Now but it&#8217;s So Worth it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14769,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/TweetBlocker.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250925161406\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.tweetblocker.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-06 06:19:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-06 06:19:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14770,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/twittercounter.com\\\/adamjackson?manual_update=1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130317082658\\\/http:\\\/\\\/twittercounter.com:80\\\/adamjackson?manual_update=1&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-06 06:19:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-06 06:19:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14771,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/3999093693&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190111061138\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/3999093693\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-06 06:20:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-06 06:20:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14772,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/3999093685&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251106062353\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/3999093685&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/3999093685&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14769,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/TweetBlocker.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250925161406\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.tweetblocker.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-06 06:19:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-06 06:19:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>We all now how common spammers are on Twitter. Spammers are people that follow you and reply to you with advertisements and things you don&#8217;t want. Bots are also common and those are spammers but auto-spammers and those suck even worse. Often times, I&#8217;ll simply mention coffee and get a reply within seconds with some promo for free coffee. Yes it&#8217;s annoying.<\/p>\n<p>I think a lot of people deal with it because on those random occasions that Twitter purges known spam \/ bot accounts, people complain heavily about losing followers. &#8220;wahhhhh i lost 250 followers!!&#8221; I&#8217;ll check TwitterCounter.com and yep everyone lost a few hundred followers so it&#8217;s going to be okay, I promise.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not often that people opt in to purge their followers but honestly I don&#8217;t want a ton of followers. What I want is a rabid group of people who will click, visit and sign up for anything that I tweet about. Having a number isn&#8217;t important. it&#8217;s about relationships &amp; influence. 100K people that follow me doesn&#8217;t mean anything if that link I posted on received 15 clicks. For a guy that had nearly 4,000 followers, a link getting 150 clicks is pretty good. I like that ratio and those links were being clicked days later which shows some people check out things that I tweeted a while ago which is also a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I want my follower count to be honest, open and simple with zero spammers \/ bots. <a href=\"http:\/\/TweetBlocker.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TweetBlocker<\/a> has helped me out.<\/p>\n<p>You setup your TweetBlocker account w\/ Twitter&#8217;s OAuth authentication then it spends 10-45 minutes scanning all of your followers. Then, it grades them based on how long ago they joined Twitter, their follow &#8211; follower ratio and other data points. Your followers are put into grades like a report card (a,b,c,d and f). Then simply filter by grade, select one or all of those Twitter accounts and click &#8220;block&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After this 5 minute process took place, I lost 862 FOLLOWERS! I did take care to scan the list at least somewhat to make sure I didn&#8217;t block my mom who rarely tweets but does follow me. She has a D score and it would have been bad if I blocked her. Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/twittercounter.com\/adamjackson?manual_update=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TwitterCounter.com<\/a> screenshots from before &amp; after the process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Before TweetBlocker by adamjackson1984, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/3999093693\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  class=\"aligncenter pk-lazyload\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Before TweetBlocker\"  width=\"500\"  height=\"322\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3443\/3999093693_6a1fb3316a.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"After TweetBlocker by adamjackson1984, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/3999093685\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  class=\"aligncenter pk-lazyload\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"After TweetBlocker\"  width=\"500\"  height=\"352\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2598\/3999093685_f7f3cf5ac0.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/tweetblocker.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TweetBlocker.com<\/a> and try it out. Let me know how the process goes and how many spammers you purged!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We all now how common spammers are on Twitter. 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