I have been using Tweet Spinner for nearly a year since Ross @Thirdsectorlab sent me a link and asked me my thoughts, I've had a bit of a love hate relationship with the service it's very much a pro tool and it is easy to get yourself in bother if you don't pay attention to all the options it offers.

However over time Tweet Spinner has refined itself and added a host of new and very useful features that charity powertweeters will find can save them time and help clean up your twitter accounts friend / followers.

Tweet Spinner recently added "Prune" to their feature set, this tool allow you to set a number of metrics that spinner will look for as characteristics of the people you follow if it finds a match it removes the user from your friend list so you won't see their tweets anymore.

{jb_bluebox}Specifically it can look for time since last tweet, number of tweets per month and percentage of tweets containing links indicators of spammy or abandoned accounts.{/jb_bluebox}

I would strongly urge you NOT TO USE DEFAULT VALUES instead set them to 200 days  99% Links and 5000 Tweets per month then run prune once and check the pruned list to make sure its removed the right sorts of folk (spammers  / abandoned accounts) if not then manually refollow them and have another go changing the settings as required.

Do this changing and checking until you are happy you have reached a good balance, I'm mostly interested in reducing the number of abandoned accounts I follow but if I can snag a few spammers at the same time even better :-)

As for the other TweetSpinner features that's a post for another day, but please be careful its easy to get your ass banned from Twitter, Tweetspinner provide lots of warnings and I do suggest you read their Rules of the Road (link in every section of their site) when you first login!