A couple of days ago, i signed on to Twit Cleaner and took them up on their offer to look through my Twitter account and tell me the good, the bad and the ugly of who I'm following. I was surprised by the results.

Prior to Twit Cleaner, i was following close to 1500 people and just over 1300 people were following me. I still don't know what the overlap is between the two, because that's not what Twit Cleaner is set up to do. Twit Cleaner instead lumps followers into three categories: Dodgy behaviour; no activity in the last month; and accounts that ignore you.

In my case, Twit Cleaner identified 8.8% of my accounts as being dodgy (people trying to sell you crap or linking to the same link perpetually); 2.9% as having no activity in the last month; and 8.4% of accounts that ignored me.

I understood the category of not tweeting in the last month, because many in this group Iknew personally, and i know they signed up for Twitter but then didn't do anything with it. They had fewer than 10 Tweets ever, so I didn't worry about them because maybe one day the mood will grab them and they'll get hooked into the medium, just like me.

The dodgy people were also pretty benign -- i just unfollowed the majority of them on the spot.

It was the last group that really got my goat -- probably an ego thing if I'm totally honest.One subgroup among the people ignoring me were accounts that don't interact with anyone. Broadcasters really. And some really were broadcasters like Breaking News and CKNW. Other broadcasters were in the next category of hardly following anyone back -- like Newsweek, CBC News, USA Today, and others. I'm OK if they ignore me because i didn't really expect anything else, and I can always comment directly on their posts if I really have something burning to say.

What i was surprised about, however, was who else was on the list of not interacting with anyone. The Premier of my province, for example, Gordon Campbell made this list, as did environmentalist Tzeporah Berman and the digital SVP from my company, Phil Gomes.

Sorry guys, i don't get it. Which part of social media are you having difficulty with? Why are you even on Twitter if you're not willing to engage with anyone. Who is giving you advice, because frankly, it's bad. In my view, it's a big #fail.

I was also surprised by some of the accounts that made it into "hardly following anyone" -- accounts that follow back less than 10% of followers. CPRS Vancouver -- the Canadian Public Relations Society  -- are you kidding me? Marketing Magazine. Shame on you. Tourism BC. You should know better.

Thanks to Twit Cleaner, i am now following about 100 fewer than i was yesterday -- leaving me room to follow people who actually want to engage and be part of a multi-way conversation.

Check out Twit Cleaner and see who is really engaged with you. And let me know if you're surprised by the results.