March 16th, 2009Hummingbird – Auto follow/unfollow Twitter Users 7 Ways
Hummingbird is an automation tool for Twitter that lets you manage your followers in 7 ways.
1) Follow All
This allows you to auto follow the followers of any Twitter User.
2) Follow All for a Search Result
This allows you to auto follow people by what they tweet about. (up to the day follow limit)
3) Follow all followers of a Specific User
Follow some or all the followers of a user while looking at the follower list.
4) Auto Unfollow users that do not follow you back.
If users to not follow you back you can auto unfollow then to make more room to follow others.
5) Twitter VIPs
You can mark some users as VIP and you will never unfollow them automatically even if they do not follow you back.
6) Protect Previously Unfollowed
If you already unfollowed someone and they try to follow you again, you will not follow them if you have the unfollow protected.
7) Protect Users with Private Updated.
This will prevent you from auto unfollowing users that have marked there updates private but let you in.
If you want to automate some of the more mundane tasks of Twitter, Hummingbird may be for you.
Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Resources, Hummingbird
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:19 pm
hey thanks for leading me to Hummingbird! I have over 40k followers now =)
June 15th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
I would like to know if anyone can contact the developers of Hummingbird– One feature that I think would be indespensable and not hard to program is the ability to VIP someone straight from the following/followers list without having to go into the sub-tab and type them in manually- quite painstaking and it would make this already great tool 100% rock and roll.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Can i get a one small pic from your site?
Robor
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:43 am
Amazing! Not clear for me, how offen you updating your http://www.twitter-resources.com.
Thanks
Hobosic
July 7th, 2009 at 5:47 am
Greatings, http://www.twitter-resources.com to GoogleReader!
Have a nice day
July 9th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Ugh, I liked! So clear and positively.
July 10th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Does anyone have an effective way to promote my website and get back links Do you recommend the use of articles and articles submission with twitter
August 31st, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I ran Humingbird on 2 Twitter accounts. In both cased both accounts were Suspended by Twitter, before the Humingbird had finished following. Within the first hour that is. Sent an email to support@mesiablabs.com but they do not reply, nor has Twitter support. Please advise. Hope you can assist..
October 3rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Thanks for sharing! Any idea if there is a free trial for users to test it out for a couple of days first?
Currently I am using 2 separate Twitter tools for the functions provided by Hummingbird, Mutuality to unfollow those not following back and SocialOomph for the rest.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Thanks for the list of features and how they work. I am looking for a good desktop app that does all this stuff. The services out there are just too expensive.
February 24th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Nice article.
Please do more.
March 18th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
I have heard great things about Hummingbird and as a virtual assistant and blogger feel it’s important to have but can’t bite the price at the moment .. ugh!!! Thanks for the write up though, helped me when I was searching to figure out what this was!!
April 9th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
I haven’t quite figured out how the auto unfollow works with Hummingbird 1 … does it just happen automatically? I don’t see any way of doing it…
April 9th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
And I also must say that so far I really prefer Hummingbird 1 to Hummingbird 2… strange? It just seems to work much more effectively as far as gaining followers… the problem I’m running into (and it’s very early.. I’ve only been using it for a day or so) is that I’m following far more people than are following me… that seems strange.