Lady Gaga - Twitter's most powerful person?

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Lady Gaga is the most powerful person on Twitter, with almost 19 million twitter followers, she is the most followed on this Twitterverse (source: Twitaholic ). I believe, if Twitter is a country in itself, Gaga would be the president. I became a fan, maybe, 3-4 years ago. And every year, I love her even more. Lady Gaga is more than her catchy songs, out of this world vidoes, outrageous outfits, and meatdresses. She is a living testimony of bravery and a moving masterpiece. Yes, I would not have joined Twitter without Gaga in it. Yes, Gaga is power.

I was quite surprised that there are several like me, hardcore 'Little Monsters' on Twitter, with accounts solely dedicated to Mother Monster. I, myself, have an account named after her. It is beautiful to share ideas, thoughts, and even happiness with people with similar interests. With just a tweet, 140 characters or less, we understand each other, just like brothers. Yes, mutual agreement and understanding also happens in cyberworld.

Twitter also changed the way fans interact with their idols. Us, Little Monsters, always get excited when Gaga tweets since she tweets less compared to other artists. We can also express our love to our idols through this device. And if you are lucky, your idol can send her love back! What also made Twitter amazing is that it is real time. You will know or guess if your fave celeb is online, having fun, or in a bad mood. And speaking of real time, trending topics can be controlled by some fanbases. Yes, some. Others are not powerful enough. :-)

The fanbase of Gaga - Little Monsters - is one of world's most powerful. We can create trending topics worldwide if we want to. And this is fueled even more when Gaga tweets. Her every word can be a TT (trending topic)!

Here you see the power of a celebrity in this alternative universe. But surprisingly, you will also realize that the power is also on the 'fingertips' of the ordinary people. Well, somehow in Twitterverse, we can experience power we never had at the real world. And that is a #fact.

Top 3 reasons why you are not able to follow anyone on twitter

I keep getting asked by JustUnfollow users why they are unable to follow anyone on twitter. Here are the top 3 reasons why your twitter account is not able to follow any other twitter user.

1. You have hit the 2000 follow limit

I know, you can see others following more than 2000 users and you ask how? Well, twitter has this thing where they allow you to follow up to 2000 users without bothering you. Once you hit the 2000 follow limit they will then stop you from following more users until you get 2000 followers.

A solution to this is to either unfollow those who do not follow you or unfollow inactive twitter users. JustUnfollow let's you do just that.

2. You have more than 2000 followers but you're still not able to follow more

Oh, did I tell you, once you cross 2000 it will always be that you can follow only 10% of the number of followers you have. Say you have 5000 followers and you are following 4000 users, then you can only follow  (10% of your 5000 followers) i.e. 500 more. (I'm not too sure about this so please correct me if I'm wrong)

3. When point 1 and 2 do not apply to you

This is the classic 1000 follows a day limit. Whatever be your follower or friend count, you cannot follow more than 1000 twitter users in a day. We face this problem a lot when trying to follow back those who follow us since @JustUnfollow gets way more than 1000 new twitter followers a day.

Well, these are pretty much the points that I can think of as to why twitter would not allow you to follow more users. If I've missed out on any points then please let me know so that I can update this post.

Top 10 reasons why users unfollow you on twitter

We asked our 200,000 friends on twitter who are all users of JustUnfollow as to why they would unfollow someone and these are the top 10 reasons we got. 

1. Not following them back (non followers get unfollowed on http://justunfollow.com )

Most users want to be followed back. Unless maybe if you are a celebrity or a news agency.

2. They don't tweet at all

If you are inactive on twitter you will most likely be unfollowed eventually. Companies and brands should make it a point to tweet regularly to their users.

3. Uninteresting tweets

If you do not tweet the latest movie trailers or the latest news or some funny quotes be prepared to be unfollowed.

4. Too many tweets (Solution: use our new app http://justlater.com )

Users who tweet in bursts end up clogging the timeline of their followers. This is one of the main reasons why you can get unfollowed on twitter

5. Spam links

You won a million dollars by visiting a link? Or you became a Mafia somewhere? You better not tell it to your followers else they are sure to unfollow you.

6. Only RTing all the time

Many people do this in order to stay "active" on twitter. Just RT tweets at random. But unless you do not tweet your own original stuff your followers will realize sooner or later that you are an RT freak and unfollow you.

7. Difference of Opinion. I like Obama and you don't. I will unfollow you

Many users want people they follow to conform to their line of thought. Conflicting interests would mean you would get unfollowed.

8. Entering and tweeting about competitions and asking followers to join

Yeah, it's cool to receive a free iPad but not cool to see those tweets on the timeline. Most people take these competitions to be spam and scams.

9. Talking about sex all the time

Talk about Sex all day or tweet hate messages and people will unfollow you.

10. Welcome DM on following

This sucks big time. We receive 100s of DMs. A "thank you for following me" DM is not welcome anywhere.

We received a lot of replies to this question. It's a good thing we have Buffr to help us easily reply to all these queries. Buffr is a work in progress and I'm pretty impressed with how handy it has been in helping us interact with all our followers.

New paid plans on JustUnfollow

Around a year ago we introduced JustUnfollow Premium. It's been well received and we've been getting a lot of feedback. Many of our users wanted more choice.

Today, we release new paid plans. The cost of yearly plans have increased from $4.95 per year to $9.99 per year (that's still less than $1 per month!).

What's more exciting are the two new plans which allow you to upgrade multiple accounts at a very attractive yearly price.

Here are the plans (the payments are made yearly) : 

Premium ($9.99 per year) - This is per account per year

Pro ($39.99 per year) - Pro upgrade gives you a total of 5 upgraded accounts for a year

Super ($99.99 per year) - Super upgrade let's you upgrade unlimited accounts that are linked to your super account

All the above paid plans currently offer the followng features : 

1. No unfollow limit
2. No follow limit
3. Whitelist upto 500 users

We are in the Alexa Top 5000!

Happy day today! JustUnfollow now has an Alexa rank of 4991 which means we're one among the Top 5000 websites of the world according to Alexa! 

Just a few stats as of today : 

1. We have 326,000 registered users
2. Since launch we've seen over 115 million unfollows
3. On a regular day more than 0.5 million users get unfollowed using JustUnfollow

With JustUnfollow you can do the following: 

1. Show Non Followers - Find and unfollow users who do not follow you back
2. Show Fans - Find and follow users who follow you
3. Show Inactive Following - Find and unfollow inactive twitter users i.e. users who have not tweeted from a long time
4. Whitelist - Add users you do not wish to unfollow to the Whitelist
5. FriendFollower - Follow another twitter account's followers (currently being tested hence access to Premium accounts only). This helps you gain new followers in your niche since you can copy accounts that are similar to yours
6. FriendCheck - Find if a particular twitter user follows you and if you follow them

Find who are the inactive users on twitter and unfollow them

We're launching a new feature! Login to JustUnfollow and click the Show Inactive Following button. You will then be able to see users who have been inactive i.e. those who have not tweeted from the last 1 month or 3 month or more than 6 months. We've made it fast, so you don't have to wait too long to get the list of inactive users that you may be following on twitter. 

What's the point of following a twitter account that hasn't tweeted in the last 6 months? In all probability these accounts are dormant and they will never be used again. So instead of having them increase the number of people you may be following on twitter, it's a good idea to JustUnfollow them!

Hope you find the Show Inactive Following feature useful. Looking forward to your views and suggestions about this feature.

Improvements to whitelist

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We introduced the whitelist feature a few months ago. The use of whitelist has been steadily increasing and we've been getting some feature requests.

I'm glad to announce improvements to whitelist. You will now be able to view all the users in your whitelist (previously you could only view the first 100 users that you had whitelisted).

A big change to this release is that you can now see the friendship status between you and whitelisted users. This helps you know if any of the whitelisted users have started following you back!

Follow a twitter user's followers

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Many a times you don't know where to find like minded twitter users or if you are a business then finding the right audience on twitter can be difficult. I agree there are a lot of twitter user search apps out there but it's an overwhelming number of users to choose from. 

Sometimes, the best way to find new users to follow is to pick a twitter account that might have interests similar to yours and follow the people following them. More than individuals, this would work better for businesses that have accounts on twitter. Businesses can easily follow the followers of their competitors. 

Why you should follow the followers of a competing twitter account is pretty obvious. If I am following @pizzahut it very well means that I love to eat pizza (well who doesn't like pizza!). So, I would very well be interested in a new pizza place and when I see that @dominos is following me, I'll most probably check them out, follow them and even try ordering pizza from them someday!

We call this feature Copy Followers and it helps you follow a twitter user's followers. It is currently available for JustUnfollow Premium users. We might make it available for our free users in the future.