A healthy growing twitter following, if managed well, can get your business message out to thousands of potential new clients each week, without filling your timeline with rubbish tweets you're not interested in.

Using tools to manage social media for business, especially for Twitter, saves time and promotes growth. If your new to using twitter tools to spring clean and grow your twitter following, these three tools will amaze you! Just run them in order to unfollow those not following you back or sending spammy tweets, and then grow your audience with targeted twitter followers.

Who's not following you back?: Friend or Follow

If people are not following you back, they don't see your tweets and are obviously not interested in what you have to say. Friend or follow, a free tool, finds them and allows you to easily unfollow, stopping their tweets from polluting your tweetstream. There may be good reason to follow some people that aren't following you back. Industry leaders or other sources of expert information often warrant your attention regardless.

Cleaning your tweetstream: Twit Cleaner

This is a favorite twitter tool for getting rid of those pesky tweeters engaging in dodgy or spammy tweets. Twit Cleaner lists those who are tweeting nothing but links, repeatedly post identical tweets, don't interact with anyone, and 13 other signs they are basically tweeting garbage. This is a free tool, go to the website, run a report, and when it's ready you are notified by a direct message.

The report is broken up into a very easy to follow lists of people engaging in potentially spammy tweeting. Where you agree with Twit Cleaner, simply click to unfollow right there on the report. Learn more about this free twitter tool by reading our Twitcleaner review.

Building a following: Tweet Adder

Tweet Adder (Affiliate link) comes with a solid feature set for streamlining and managing your Twitter account. This twitter tool will help rapidly grow your Twitter following by automatically searching for people to follow, following, unfollowing, tweeting and more.

You can control the level of automation, a green icon shows that automaton is switched on for a particular feature, while the red indicates automation is switched off. Each feature has "control parameters" to fine tune the automated processes.

Tweet Adder helps you quickly build lists of targeted people to follow. There are several methods available.

• Search tweets by keyword and location.
• Search profile data (bio's) by keyword and location.
• Add followers of a twitter user.
• Add twitter users followed by one particular user.
• Add twitter lists created by other users.

Suppose your business deals with Australian accountants. A profile search for the keyword "Accountant", with the location "Australia" instantly returns a targeted list of potential new clients. I can't stress enough how important this is for efficient twitter marketing.

Once you've generated your list of people to follow, simply switch on the follow automation. Tweet Adder will start following your list adding a natural delay between follows until your list is exhausted or a preset follower ratio is reached.

Automatically unfollow those that haven't followed you back within a number of days (typically set to 4 days). This cleans your tweetstream of those that aren't interested in your tweets, and allows you to follow more people without hurting your follower ratio - the ratio of people your following to those following back.

Making a connection is just the first step - engage your new twitter followers in conversation to develop relationships rather than just chasing numbers.

There are many other features of Tweet Adder you may like to explore. Automated tweeting is a feature which generates much discussion. A drawback is that you can't schedule specific times, tweets are sent randomly during a set time period. To schedule specific times use a social media dashboard like Tweetdeck or Hootsuite.

Auto Direct Messages are another feature that should be used with caution, Twitter folk quickly develop a blindness to auto DM's which makes them ineffective. 

Tweet Adder can manage multiple profiles, for one profile the licence costs $55. This really is a small expense when considering the 1000's of targeted contacts it can generate from searching, and following relevant twitter accounts, other features are just a bonus.

Checkout these twitter tools now to spring clean and grow your twitter following. Don't waste hours of your time doing these tasks manually and hoping for people to find you.

If you use these or other tools for automating parts of your twitter account please share your thoughts in the comments below!