Cleaning Up and Managing Twitter Lists in 5 Steps

This is a follow up post to our Revising a Small Business Social Media Strategy post. Here we’ll focus on Twitter Lists.

1. Clean up your followers - 

1. Remove anyone you don’t want to follow anymore.
2. Review who is following you that you aren’t following, decide who to add. Don’t add people that aren’t interesting to you or haven’t tweeted in a while.
3. Be sure to block all the spammy accounts.

2. Propose some Twitter Lists

Start by thinking of what lists you know you want, for me these were:

• Friends in RL (private) – People I know outside of Twitter.
• Potentials (private)- Potential clients we are trying to land or are in negotiations with.
• Competitors (private) – Similar agencies to Sawaya Consulting.
• SAWAYA clients- Accounts run by our clients.
• SAWAYA services – Vendors and services we use.
• SLC UT Peeps – People in Salt Lake City specifically and Utah in general.
• Design/Dev/Business – Interesting tweets for our industry and about business in general.
• Food & Fun – Places we eat or go.

Expect some crossover — lots of my friends are also clients, but you want to duplicate so you don’t miss something if you only have time to read through one list in a day.

3. Add more lists and update the ones you started with.

I added another list for things I think are funny and tweaked the lists above.

4. Watch your new lists, Manage new followers

Use either Hootsuite or use the Twitter built in Lists function to read through your lists, making adjustments as necessary. Manage new followers on a case-by-case basis (so you don’t have to spend hours cleaning up again).

5. Interact!

With your new lists you have more ability to interact and read through tweets. Even if you only stay current on a few lists you can start to retweet and interact with people that interest you.

Are you someone I should be following? Let me know @sawayaconsult.