You Twitter followers can unfollow you for different reasons.
Most people don’t really care when others unfollow them but if you belong to the other category and want to track when users stop following your Twitter updates, here are a few services to help you out:
#1. Follow Monitor
Just follow the @FollowMonitor bot on Twitter and it will send you public replies (not Direct Messages) with a list of users who may have recently unfollowed you on Twitter.
The bot will add the actual Twitter handles of your previous friends in its tweet (see example) so they’ll be indirectly notified that you now know that they unfollowed you.
Related: Unfollow Spammers on Twitter
#2. Nutshell Mail
NutshellMail will send you an email digest at custom intervals with a list of Twitter users (and their profile pictures) who have stopped following you since the last update.
With NuthshellMail, you can track new followers and unfollowers across all your Twitter accounts from a central place (your email inbox) and since the service uses OAuth, you don’t have to share your Twitter credentials anywhere.
See: Why Twitter Users Need NutShellMail
#3. Goodbye Buddy
Follow @goodbyebuddy on Twitter and this will send you a Direct Message each time someone unfollows you on Twitter. Works like a charm.
* Qwitter is another service that sends you an email as soon as you lose a follower on twitter but I skipped it as I am not too sure if the service works anymore though their website is very much functional.
#4. Twitter Less
Like @followmonitor, @tless* is a Twitter bot that will help you know who dropped you on Twitter. You just have to follow the @tless bot and it will automatically track your Twitter followers.
With TwitterLess, you can also learn how many new Twitter followers you have gained with time and who all have left you since the day you started following @tless. *Update: The bot is not functional anymore.
For more tips and tricks, check The Twitter Guide.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-unfollow/10033/
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Reader Comments
There are plenty of other apps to get unfollow notifications link
Written by Anuj Seth – Twitdom on 09.28.09
Your picture shows my id @seochief ;) Anyways Good post
Written by Amar on 09.28.09
Hi Amit,
I am a regular reader of you blog, these are nice tools that you have mentioned. We have one tool for Twitter account management called buzzom.com. Which lets you manage your twitter account very easily. Login into the tool and click on the flush button, it will show u the list of all the people who are not following you, but you following them. There is also the functionality of grow and reciprocate, which let’s you follow new people and reciprocate people who follow you and you don’t follow them back.
Hopefully you can cover the tool in some next article of yours.
Regards,
Rohit
Written by rohit on 09.28.09
Well, I use friendorfollow, and it’s quite good. I do a twitterweed (u wud know if you follow me on twitter :P ) every other Monday. It’s a manual process, but it’s good to keep note of your unfollowers once every fortnight.
Written by Narenubi on 09.28.09
TwUnfollow works fine whenever some one unfollows you on twitter it will send you an email alert. There is another app Qwitter does the same job it is not working well.
Written by venkat on 09.29.09
Quitter was a good one, but their services have stopped sending emails.
Written by Brent Nau on 09.29.09
i tried qwitter and received no response for 5 days although my follower count was +/- 2-3 people on each of those days. i emailed their support email 3 times and also received no response.
Written by twirlybird on 09.30.09
Hopefully, someone can help me with a problem. Does anyone know of a service that allows you to see which people, that you are following, are also following you? Anyone who can offer assistance, is greatly appreciated.
Have a great day,
Bruce Carl
Written by Bruce Carl on 10.02.09
Bruce – tweepi.com (Flush) will help you find Twitter users who do not follow you though you are following their tweets. You can also unfollow people using the same utility.
Written by Amit on 10.02.09
@Bruce, buzzom.com can help you with all your Twitter account management related problems
Written by Rohit on 10.02.09