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Hiding fans with pending follow requests

Up until now, under your 'Fans' we would even show protected accounts to which you have a pending follow request. This was a big pain in the ass since when you try to follow such accounts, twitter would throw an error saying there was already a pending follow request against the user.

From now on, we would be automagically hiding such users. So go on, follow back all your Fans, there won't be any fans displayed with a pending follow request.

Check relationship between any two twitter users

Always wondered if Barack Obama follows Lady Gaga or if Justin Bieber follows Britney Spears? Well, you can now find answers to your question using the "Friend Check" option in JustUnfollow.

I've always wanted a way to check if a particular user follows me or not. Hence this feature. Hope you guys find it useful, do let me know about your views.

Give it a try on JustUnfollow.com

Start twitter all over again

I've often heard users wanting to start twitter on a clean slate. They've wanted a way to unfollow everyone they were following and start from friend count 0. 

There are a lot of reasons for this. Usually, when we sign up on twitter, not knowing what to do, we start following random users. After some time we realize they are not the exact fit. Besides, there's always the unwanted DM spam that people want to get rid of. I can list a lot of uses but what the heck, you get my point.

To make it easy to unfollow all your friends on twitter and start twitter like a new user without having to change your twitter account, we've just introduced a new feature that let's you do exactly this, unfollow everyone that you are following on twitter.

Click the 'Show Friends' button and you would be able to see a list of users you follow on twitter. Hit the unfollow button until there are no friends left! 

P.S. All rules related to unfollow that have been set by twitter would still apply.

Visit JustUnfollow today to try this feature!

"html" is the new "do"

Cryptic title eh? Well, it'll make sense if you read this post.

Up until now, all the extensions on JustUnfollow ended with a .do extension (it's the default extension provided in the framework I use). I thought it was better to have an extension that was more popular and what better choice than .html!

As of this writing, code has been pushed out making all the links in JustUnfollow end with .html. I've handled the old URLs by doing a permanent redirect to the new ones. I'm hoping nothing breaks and God Google does not punish us for this sin.

P.S. All your old bookmarks (if you've been kind enough to bookmark us) would still work properly so nothing to worry about. You do not really need to do anything, this post is just an FYI.

Working full-time on my own

I thought all you guys should know. I've quit my job and would be working full-time on my own. That means, I can devote more time to JustUnfollow (the reason why I quit my job).

I'm currently working out of home but will soon find some cheap office space to accommodate myself and that will be the place from where new features for JustUnfollow would be launched ;)

Here's me at home. You can read more about my journey on my personal blog - http://nischalshetty.com/post/2773542069/the-story-until-now

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