In 2007, five thousand short messages were shared each day through Twitter.com.  Now, Mashable reports the volume of daily tweets to be an amazing 39 million.

Wikipedia cites an April, 2009 study which classified 40.55% of tweets as “pointless babble”.  More encouraging, the Pear Analytics study found that 37.55% had “pass-along value”.  Given today’s volume, that would be something over 14 million.

What will you do with today’s deafening 14 million valuable tweets?  Are you following the right people to receive the messages relevant to your career development?

If not, twitterers may wish to fly – not hop – over to Tweepi.com, which offers four free tools to accomplish “Twitter Follow Management”.

Tweepi encourages you to try Geeky Follow by entering a Twitter.com screen name into an online input box.  This service is free and will bring up statistics on any Twitter user other than yourself.

The stats offer amazing potential for network building.  Learn the bios of those following the user that you input.  See how many followers each of them has, and how many links they have tweeted.  Want to follow them yourself?  Check the box and click “Follow Selected”.

When ready to get technical with “Follow”, you can customize columns and include the times retweeted by others, the “links retweeted ratio” plus a half dozen other options.

But wait, there’s more!  Tweepi offers Geeky Flush to expose those tweeps you follow, who do not follow you back.  I learned today that despite my sincere love for the environment, Al Gore does not follow my tweets.  I am a mere statistic among his 2,112,114 twitter followers.  Perhaps I should “unfollow”, despite what this might do to the planet.

Geeky Reciprocate facilitates your following lurkers who already follow you.  Scan a quick chart which lists their location, bio, the count of their follows, and how many people they follow.  Choose among the worthy, check “follow” and then click “Follow Selected”.  You have reciprocated.

When you are ready to Cleanup your list of tweepies, a fourth free tool lists the information you need to see who’s spamming and who seldom tweets.  Boot them off their perch so you can follow only those social networkers who contribute to the daily 14 million valuable tweets.

If you get over to tweepi.com and find some great tech professionals to follow, please share a reply here.  We would like to hear from you.  Thanks!