We all know that Twitter is big and it's changing every day in matters of users, quantity of tweets and trends, but only some (a few number) can realise how big really is and the details of the changes. Most of the Twitter users know parts of the system as they follow and interact with less than a thousand of other people, but even in this case the quantity of messages and tweets can be too much for a people to handle alone, with no tools available. It should stay online, conected to Twitter, all the time and it would definately fail after a time.

Fortunately there are a good number of methods and application to filter the followers and their content. In Twitter you can filter followers in many ways: there are groups formed on the basis of to the people whom you are connected and those people to whom you are connected. In both categories you can make groups further to organize your work properly and you can filter the unwanted user from your account.

You can filter the users on Twitter according to what they are saying by going to the search page, entering a term to searh and saving the results of the search.

On the list option create a list with a name and description and specifying if you want to make it private or public. After saving the lis you can always add as many followers you want to filter their tweets. Only you will see the tweets from a private list, all the Twitter world can see the tweets from your public lists and follow the users.

Blocking users is a helpful tool when you get from various accounts (fake or human created accounts) send spam, engage in persistent bothering and create other problems.

You can download any third party application for Twitter to help you organize and filter the users and their content.

Refollow makes it easy to discover, manage, and protect your Twitter social circle. Manage your friends and followers, establish new relationships, unfollow or block users, sort by importance, lock relationships, and much more.

Twitter Karma is a standard Flash application by Dossy Shiobara that draws in all your friends and followers from Twitter and once when you click on the ‘Whack’ button the list is displayed for you. Benefits: unfollow twitter users those do not follow you, follow twitter users those who follow you, follow and unfollow the users in bulk and that save your time, sort users based on type.

TweetDeck and Hootsuite are dashboard Twitter machines, they take care of all your Twitter accounts and filters. They each have a bit of a learning curve, but offer great ways to filter, organize, display and analyze your Twitter followers, sources and metrics.

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