Refollow

Getting started (the basics)

The first time you login to Refollow, you’ll notice that there’s a lot going on. We chose to pack as much functionality and info as we could into a single screen rather than making you click through multiple screens in the app. It may be a little confusing at first, but it should quickly become very intuitive and powerful!

Here’s the screen layout:

• At the top of the screen are your filters with check boxes to turn them on or off.
• Below that are your sort options. These work like you would expect, reversing direction if you click them twice.
• On the left is your grid of Twitter users - 100 max shown per page. Move your mouse over a user to see a popup of info. Click the picture to select or unselect that user (you’ll see a red check appear over the picture).
• Below that you’ll see little numbers to navigate to other pages of the grid.
• To the top right of the grid is your picture (click to see your info), and a link to logout.
• Below that are actions you can take on selected users (follow, unfollow, lock, block, etc.)
• The next row has the selection count and options for selecting all the users you see, or all the users that are loaded across all pages.
• The “Show me” box lets you load users from various places. By default, your own followers and following relationships are loaded. But you can also load other’s followers, other’s following, etc.
• To the bottom right of the grid is a status bar to tell you what just happened (like loading users or following people)
• Below that is info about how many API calls you have left (you get 150 an hour from Twitter!)
• And finally at the bottom are a couple links to follow us.

When you first login, the first thing to happen is an automatic load of 100 of your friends (people you are following) and 100 of your followers. This will take a few seconds. If you want to load more, you can click the “more” or “all” options in the “Show me” box. Each load of 100 costs 1 API call.

If you move your mouse over one of the pictures in the grid, a popup will show you some info about that user. At the top left of that popup is a little icon that let’s you know your relationship (a pink bar means you’re following them, a yellow bar means they are following you, and both bars mean you are following each other. A red “X” through the pink bar means you previously followed them, but not anymore).

Now try turning on some filters to hide some of the users in the grid. For example, check the box for “I’m Following” and also check the box for “Not Following me”. Shame on these people! If you want to stop following them since they obviously don’t care about you, just click on the “Select Page” button (notice the selection count is updated), then click on the “Unfollow” button. Watch the status bar at the bottom for an update on the progress (Twitter will take a little time to process). It’s that easy!

That should be enough to get you started. We’ll cover some of the more advanced features next!