Twitter is my favorite social media platform, but I have to confess I am a little OCD and ritualistic when it comes to my Twitter experience. Most of these processes involve ways to clean up my tweet stream, but others are the ways I engage and interact. It might seem a little odd to some people, but it works out well for me.
Here are five of my weird OCD Twitter rituals:
1. TwitCleaner
On the first of every month, I religiously run TwitCleaner to clear the noise from my stream. It’s the quickest way to unfollow suspected bots, people who post too many duplicate links, people who post only links, and people who have little or no interaction with their followers.
2. ManageFlitter
Every Monday morning I run Manage Flitter to see who unfollowed me so I can return the gesture and unfollow those who have inactive Twitter accounts. I’m always able to weed out between 30-60 followers that way. Perhaps it seems petty to unfollow those who’ve done the same to me, but I am a strong believer in two-way interaction.
3. Morning Tweets
I tweet every morning from 7:30am-8:30 am with my morning coffee (excepting weekends and vacation). I like to be able to to catch up with anyone who personally interacted with me since bedtime the night before and allows me to keep a strong level of engagement with my most active followers.
4. Evening Tweets
I tweet every night from 8:45pm-9:45 pm (excepting weekends and vacation), because I work a regular 9-5 job during the day and my “mom” job after school, and this allows me to catch all the tweets I might have missed earlier in the day. I don’t like my tweets to go unnoticed, and I know my followers appreciate a reply. Sometimes I miss a few people, because I have a lot of activity in my mentions feed, but I try to be diligent in catching up with everyone.
5. Retweets
During my morning and evening tweet sessions, I make sure to retweet at least 20 followers each during both times from my main Tweet stream. I specifically select followers I haven’t had recent interaction with in awhile to let them know I haven’t forgotten them and to show a little extra love to the followers who have helped me with retweets and website visits. I also spend this time reaching out and interacting with people I might not have tweeted with in awhile.
Of course, there are times I am able to tweet a little during the day, but it’s not often. With my weird OCD Twitter rituals in place, I feel like I’m on top of things most of the time. I have different routines for Facebook, G+, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc., but those are posts for another time.
How about you? Do you have any OCD Twitter rituals? Assure me I’m not too crazy by sharing them in the comments!
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This post by Amberr Meadows has been syndicated with permission from her and Jim Dougherty , on whose blog the post first appeared.
Yes I do these types of things .. okay okay twitter ocd lol
Great advice. I’m following you.
Wow! I’ve never tried some of these – great ideas!! Thanks 🙂
Jemi, some of these were new to me as well, but Amberr works them pretty well, and I’ve started using them too.
These are awesome! I had a little time this morning and I cleaned my Twitter. Wow. I didn’t realize I was following so many bots. Thank you!
Great Christine! Glad you found them useful!
These are great tools. Thanks Damyanti!
Thank Amberr, who I syndicated this post from 🙂
Not any weird rituals. I’ll have to check out Twit Cleaner. I do use whounfollowedme.com to clear out those who unfollow me.
Alex, I use Twitcleaner from time to time to get rid of the bots.