Indeed. I can manually remove people (sure, it isn't as fun) but you have a real opportunity to add value here.

The criteria I look at when I do one of my periodic follower purges:

* Do I know them personally?

* Do I follow them back?

* Have they tweeted recently?

* Are their tweets content-laden or link spam?

* (Where you can add value: Do other people unfollow this person frequently?)

1) I would actually love to know what you think would be a good metric for 'do I know them personally'. I believe this would be a big deal for us. We attempted to sort of do this in an earlier iteration by getting your latest @mentions and counting how many times the user @mentioned you and what the mentions were. However the problem was either an extra API call per a person to get the last 200 (the limit by Twitter) or make 1 call and only look through 50. We decided either way wouldn't be worth it.

2) We actually do show if they follow you back, but I guess we need to make it more clear.

3) We also have a recent tweets/day as well as recent tweets. Again I guess we need to figure out how to emphasize this better.

4) This is actually good, how would you go about doing this?

5) Very smart idea, we will start tracking this in our DB. I think.

Great issues. Stuff we'll look into. Thanks!

Thanks for the advice! Right now we're just grabbing the data from Twitter and presenting it without sorting it by any kind of algorithm, but we'll definitely think about how to present the people you're most likely to "kill" first, that's a good suggestion.

agreed. I need something that tells me how often I interact with fellow tweeters...and based off that, keep/remove.

my 0.02