Hey! I'm one of the developers who worked on this project (the other being @JaredTMoskowitz).
We made this at a Hackathon quite a while ago and decided to ship it. Our next steps are trying to use the unfollowing information to eventually recommend twitter accounts we think you'll like. We're also currently building a Facebook version for unfollowing old fb friends.
To address the iOS 8 question, we built most of the code base in the first 24 hours, so it was hard to know what exactly we would end up with. Thanks for addressing this, we unfortunately forgot to reevaluate that decision!
Happy unfollowing!
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Since @cwrichardkim is super modest, I'll just go ahead and post the link to one of his Github repos for making a card-based iOS app. Helped me get off the ground- I appreciate it and I love the application of the cards in this app
https://github.com/cwRichardKim/...
@bluethen we never even considered android hmm. It shouldn't be too hard though, that'd be a great way to learn the developer environment. I'll see if the other dev is interested in working on this with me
That might be useful tool for traditional twitter account reach building strategy (follow a lot, unfollow later, repeat). Was that the genesis of this product?
Awww crap. iOS 8 is required and I'm still on 7.x
@grzaks Honestly, it started mostly as a joke to make fun of the whole "my twitter ratio is higher than your twitter ratio" culture. Of course, the roots of that phenomenon come from what you're talking about
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I really like the fact that you see a few of their most recent tweets gives you an idea if that person is offering any true value. The design is really clean. One question, does the app tell you which people are following you back? When I was using the app I didn't see an indicator.
@joefarish We were *right* about to do this, but found out Facebook built a pretty good one already. On the browser hit the arrow at the top right -> News Feed Preferences -> People
@joefarish Facebook has a great mechanic for this with Birthdays. A bit sadistic as far as birthday gifts go, but after 365 days of pruning, you'll be free and clear.
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@cwrichardkim Thanks for pointing this out to me. Now to work my way through my 'friends' list and unfollow!
@gabszanto hahaha it's a joke among some twitter users that having a high ratio (lots of followers, fewer following), is a symbol of social status
(random website: http://tffratio.com/)
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I'm always checking on our past interactions with someone I'm considering unfollowing so seeing some stats about that would also be useful.
@simpleasthat_ Yea, that kind of functionality will start to crowd the card unfortunately. What we might even do is have just the description and then have additional information on the back of the card? Not sure yet
@irvingtorresyc almost made this, but found Facebook has it already (though it's less fun). On the browser hit the arrow at the top right -> News Feed Preferences -> People
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