It is no surprise, Twitter made it clear that they were going to do away with all the sites that offered an auto follow twitter service. The fact is that they have no way of truly getting rid of every site that offers such a service.  So what twitter has done is changed their TOS and is now only allowing websites that offer twitter following managment tools who abide by these new TOS terms to use the Twitter Oauth service.  This means that if a site wants to use the twitter login authentication process for its users they have to abide by the twitter Terms Of Service.

For some sites, they will simply continue to offer the same auto-follow service that they always have, but for the users of this service, you will have to have a new login and then store your twitter credentials on their website for future use.   This is looked at as a security risk to many, however most of the early twitter services all operated on this basis.  This is a change that needed to come very soon, as more and more users were using services to make their accounts look more popular than they actually were. The twitter autofollow also lead to many spam accounts that took away from the value of the whole site and Twitters integrity.

You will notice at many of the most popular services that used to offer an auto follow service, that these features have been removed altogether or now you must single click on every user you wish to follow.  These services are still very valid and useful for those who wish to grow their twitter account. Most of these twitter services allow you to search for people in ways that you cannot within the Twitter website.  This alone can be worth using these third party twitter services to make sure that you find new and relevant tweeps to follow.  If you are working a marketing system using twitter, finding people that have similar interests to your topic or niche is a must, so these services can offer Internet marketers a lot of value in this field.

So moving forward without auto-follow on twitter may seem like a drag to some, but it is what it is.  Now, moving forward some may have to change their mass follow strategy or simply do it the old fashioned way, one click at a time!