As discussed earlier, we have now stopped all forms of automated unfollowing, as per Twitter's request.
We're currently working on a streamlined manual version (which will allow you to unfollow a single account at a time). This is our number 1 priority. We'll be in touch very soon.
I look forward to the unfollow, it is a peeve when people with as your report suggest "dodgy behavior" for me my peeve are those who follow you and after you follow them they unfollow you to appear to others as having large group of followers -yet they have hardly no tweets or interesting "whatnots"
Si,
You and your crew have saved my ass. I don't know how I handled my accounts before discovering Twit Cleaner. I really look forward to your new system. I hope this isn't causing you and your company too much turmoil.
J.
*laugh*
Well actually - its pretty much meant an entire redesign of both the front & back end, more or less from the ground up.. Thanks Twitter!
That said, we're getting there. A bit slower than I'd hoped, but we're getting there. I'm looking forward to having it done too. Doing it through Twitter's interface is tedious beyond belief. So.. back soon!
May I suggest allowing your users to create a list in Twitter where they can have all of the people in their reports dumped to. They can create lists for dodgy behavior, massive re-tweeters, etc or have the entire report dumped into one list.
Having the list (marked private of course) will at least make the manual unfollowing a little less tedious, but a whole lot quicker.
The only problem is removing the people from those lists, but I suppose you can incorporate an "update" feature on your end to rework the list.
That's a pretty reasonable idea actually. Quite a few potential gotchyas in there (not overwriting someone else's list, limit of 500 per list & 20 lists, how to easily delete the lists when finished (or update when partly finished), UI stuff, etc) but I'll give that some thought, see if I can whip something up. It's a good idea for a middle-ground solution, before coming out with something more permanent & scalable.
Thank you for the suggestion.