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Bulk Remove Twitter Followers

by MarketingBuddha
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Hello everyone,

This is my first post and I apologise if this question has been asked before or is not relevant. I couldn't find a search tool? (Is there one?)

My Question
I have a Twitter account and over the years I used a "follow everyone in my target market" tactic. As I maxed out on being able to follow people, I bought followers (naughty me). Not to look good, but so I could simply follow more people.

The tactic worked and it helped achieve what I wanted to do.

However, Twitter has recently cleaned up it's platform and have reduced my followers by 12,000. It looks like they have also resticted 3rd party apps from bulk unfollowing.

I just wondered if anyone had any good suggestions to reduce the number of people I follow. I need to unfollow about 12,000+ accounts. I don't fancy doing this manually.
#bulk #followers #remove #twitter
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  • Profile picture of the author iAkhil
    Visit https://twitter.com/following on Chrome browser.
    press F12, click on console tab and then enter this script.
    window.setInterval(function(){
    $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: $(document).height() }, 1000);
    },1000);
    this will auto scroll your following list until end. ( no need to manual scroll upto about 12,000+ accounts ).
    when scrolling end, click on clear console.
    Then enter this script again in console.
    $('.unfollow-text').each(function(e){
    $(this).click();
    });

    That's it.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarketingBuddha
      Oh wow,

      I've not tried this yet, but it looks amazing.

      Thank you. They won't block my account will they?
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    I'm just wondering why it matters. People are going to follow you and continue to follow you (or not) based upon whether you say anything they want to follow. I doubt a whole lot of people are following or unfollowing you because of how many people you follow.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarketingBuddha
      That's a good question, Dave.

      My particular niche is super easy to find. If I follow them there's a 50% chance they follow me back.

      However, I can't follow anymore people at the moment due to the ratio of following to followers.
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      • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
        Originally Posted by MarketingBuddha View Post

        That's a good question, Dave.

        My particular niche is super easy to find. If I follow them there's a 50% chance they follow me back.

        However, I can't follow anymore people at the moment due to the ratio of following to followers.
        Interesting. I never even realized they had such limits in place on Twitter.

        After researching it, I found the following "Help" article on Twitter that suggests that bulk unfollowing people can put you in hot water. Specifically, they state "regularly following and unfollowing many accounts at a time is a violation of the Twitter Rules and can result in account suspension."

        https://help.twitter.com/en/using-tw...r-follow-limit
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        • Profile picture of the author MarketingBuddha
          Can't believe you actually went away and read up on it.

          You're amazing.

          I wonder how much that's just to put you off.

          I did manually unfollow a pile of following the other night. It was hard work and they stopped me after so many but never suspended my account.

          Might be able to bulk unfollow 200 a day so it doesn't flag.
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          • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
            Originally Posted by MarketingBuddha View Post

            Can't believe you actually went away and read up on it.
            The only way I learn is by researching stuff I am unfamiliar with. Kudos to you for bringing up a problem that I never knew existed!
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