[Android] How to Find and Remove your Inactive Followers from Twitter

Fellow website owner will agree when we say that Twitter is one of the most reliable social media today to share our post and get it trending within a couple of minutes (if the topic is interesting that is). However, you may have many follower but, are you sure that they see your tweets?

You may have many followers on Twitter but are you sure that they are all active, and not just Twitter Eggs?

Twitter Eggs are those who don't really have an active twitter account. They are registered on Twitter but don't Tweet a lot, or don't tweet at all, they don't have many followers and they have an egg logo as their profile pic. They don't read your tweet so why bother have them as your followers? Best that you remove them.

So how can you remove these Twitter Eggs? Check out below some simple Google Script created by Amit Agarwal which will allow you to see all Twitter Egg Followers.

Note: Wondering how the script finds the egg profiles? No, it doesn't do any magic image matching, it merely looks at the URL of the Twitter avatar – it there’s the word “default” in the URL, it means the underlying image is that of an egg. Simple.

If you are curious to know how many eggs follow you on Twitter, here’s a Google Script that will help. It will read your Twitter followers and if any of them have eggs as a profile picture, it will log an entry into a Google Spreadsheet. Here’s how you can get started:

1. Click here to copy the Google Script in your Google Drive. If you are getting an error that “there are currently too many people viewing this file” error, try this mirror.
2. Replace amit@labnol.org with your own email address (the report will be sent here) and labnol with your own Twitter handle.
3. Go to the Run menu and choose Step 1 – Authorize. The script will ask for certain permissions and you need to choose Accept at the authorization prompt.
4. Open the Run menu again and choose Step 2 – Run to initialize the script. That’s it.

You can now close the Google Script window. The script runs in the background and it will send you an email once it has extracted all the eggs from your Twitter account. This is an open-source Google script that uses the Twitter API to get your followers.

credits: Special thanks to Amit Agrawal for making this guide.

source : http://webjunkiesblog.blogspot.com, http://news.detik.com, http://cnn.com

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