Remove Twitter Followers

[MattDLEA]

Is there a easy way to do this,

 

We have a twitter account which is displayed on our website. Unfortunatly some of the acconts that follow us have tweets that contain swear words or are generally not sutable to be linked to the school.

 

On our school website it is just our tweets that are displayed so there there is no problem. Its if you click onto our tweet which brings up the twitter page then if you click followers and look through some of there accounts that is where the problem is.

 

The easyest thing is to block them individually, but they are parents so is this a good idea?

 

How do others handle this?

[rad]

There isn't a lot you can do. As long as you are not following them, I wouldn't worry. You can't go round filtering who you want and don't want.

I manage our school Twitter, with nearly 1500 followers I just post but don't look at what others post. If I get a notification which includes our Twitter name, but isn't nice, I either report to year office if it is a student, block it or simply ignore.

 

Don't take it personally

[pete]

We block pr0n accounts who start following us, but otherwise what he ^ said.

[AJWhite1970]

We have over 50 live school twitter accounts that I administer and there are a few things you can do to keep an eye on things.

 

Firstly make sure you use widgets to display twitter feeds on your website and also tick the box that says "Exclude replies". Secondly, if you are using a search query, make sure "Safe search mode" is on and if you are using lists, make sure the sites you choose to follow are safe and clean as possible.

 

Finally, make sure ALL your email notifications are turned on and that the account they go to is constantly monitored. I have one exchange account that all the notifications for all the accounts go to (each twitter feeds email address is a SMTP alias on the main account) which means I can see in pretty much real time what is happening on all the accounts from one screen.

 

No system is fool proof but in 3 years using this system of monitoring has so far kept our feeds clean and with over 2500 followers, I reckon that's not bad

 

Andrew

[webman]

The easyest thing is to block them individually, but they are parents so is this a good idea?

 

Why would you want to block parents of students from following updates about the school? Seems a bit counterintuitive to the account in the first place.

 

What about just removing the links to the tweets from the website feed?