Social Media Hot Tub

I scratch your back, you scratch mine. That’s at least supposed to be the ethic on the microblogging behemoth we know and love as Twitter. But if you’re seeing your following numbers far outstipping your followers, you could be feeling a little shafted.

Paul Simon sang that there are 50 ways to leave your lover. What if I told you that you could leave 50 (or 500) of your deadbeat followees in one fell swoop? Now that’s how I spell relief.

One of the fun things about Twitter is how simple and bare bones it really is, challenging folks to come up with third party applications to make it more functional. Dossy is the blogging nom de plume of one such enterprising soul. He created something called Twitter Karma.

I had found tools for everything I needed to do with Twitter – minus one: I wanted to see all those nonrequiting you-know-whats listed post-office wanted-poster style all in one place. And with this app, that’s what you get. (more…)