Aside from the basics of keeping tabs on who recently followed or unfollowed you, Formulists follower management lists can take into consideration other variables such as timing and the type of people who are entering and exiting your social graph. Below are just two different kinds of power lists you can create with Formulists that may help give you added insight into your followers.

Type of List 1: A Twitter list that keeps track of recent followers that have characteristics you really like. Whether you want to pay attention to new followers that are people you have interacted with, locals or maybe just people with a lot of mutual friends, you can make this power list with Formulists.

Why use it: A lot of people will end up following you. Not all are people you want to follow back or even pay attention to.  That’s why filtering for qualities you care about can be really helpful.

How to make it:

As an example here are the steps for a list of locals who recently followed and have at least ten mutual friends-

Step 1: Generate a “Recently-Followed-Me” list and set the location filter in that list to filter for your city

Step 2: Generate a “Mutual-Friends” list and change the number of mutual friends you need to have to “10”

Step 3.  Make a “Custom-List” that keeps only people from the “Recently-Followed-Me” list that are also on the “Mutual-Friends” list.

Type of List 2: A Twitter list that keeps track of recent followers or non-followers that have conducted some note-worthy action (ie: follow, unfollow, interacted) in a certain time period.

Why use it: People respond to actions on Twitter and it can be really helpful to take into consideration the timing of certain actions (ie: following, unfollowing) in response to certain actions (such as interacting with them).  Additionally, certain time lags are expected based on time zone, level of activity, etc, so sometimes it can be helpful to take these into consideration as illustrated in the following example list.

How to make it:

As an example here are the steps for a list of people I have recently followed that have not followed me back after a week of my following them-

Step 1: Generate a “Who-I-Recently-Followed” list. The default should be set so that people on the list are people you have followed in the last week (7 days)

Step 2: Generate a “Does-Not-Follow-Me-Back” list. 

Step 3: Make a “Custom-List” that is the people in your “Does-Not-Follow-Me-Back” list but with the “Who-I-Recently-Followed” list members removed

Voila!