Catfood Follower is a desktop Twitter tool for following new friends that follow you and removing friends that dont follow you back. Follower supports Windows XP and Vista.

Why auto-follow?
(From Author) I have multiple twitter accounts. My personal account (@abfo) doesnt auto-follow. If you look interesting and not obviously spammy then Ill probably follow you back. Catfood Software (@CatfoodSoftware) will follow you backup using Catfood Follower. Ive no idea if followers are Catfood customers or not so I want to follow everyone that signs up for Catfood updates.

Why auto-remove?
Twitter makes it hard to tell when someone youre following removes you. The auto-remove feature of Follower checks for friends who dont follow back and removes them. You can exclude users who you want to follow regardless.

How to use Catfood Follower
Follower supports multiple twitter accounts. For each account you can decide if you want to auto-follow, auto-remove or both. The screenshot above shows the settings for a single account.

You can add exclusions for both auto-follow and auto-remove. For auto-remove you can also set how many days to wait before removing a friend who is no longer following you. This prevents Follower from automatically removing new friends who haven't had a chance to follow you back yet.

Once you've entered rules for each account click the Test button on the main window. You can run the rules in test mode to see who would get followed and removed, or run in live mode to actually process the rules.

You can just run Follower manually when you want to run the rules, or you can use Task Scheduler to run it automatically. To schedule Follower (on Vista) run Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Task Scheduler. Click Create a Basic Task and follow the Wizard to set the schedule (i.e. once a day). If you accepted the defaults during installation then the path to Follower is "C:\Program Files\Catfood Software\Catfood Follower\Follower.exe". Running Follower with no arguments will automatically process the rules that you entered in Catfood Follower Settings. There is no display when Follower is running automatically.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this social networking software.