How to UnFollow Everyone on Twitter

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1. Nice post. I auto-follow everyone initially on my accounts to get the numbers up, but I definitely find that responding to Twitter is difficult if you're following a large number. Did you use loose a lot of followers after unfollowing all?

   hanji

2. I would like to know the impact on those following you. Did you get a lot of @ replies saying 'wtf?' or was it well received?

3. Like Commentor #1, I'd like to see if you lost many followers by stopping follwoing everyone.

   PS: Follow me 😉

4. @ChefPatrick or Twitter.com/ChefPatrick 🙂

5. Follow me Zac, @MyBoxingFans

6. <a class="replyTo" href="#comment-111315" rel="nofollow">@hanji – money-code:

   <a class="replyTo" href="#comment-111316" rel="nofollow">@jameszol:

   I had around 5200 followers last night when I started, and am now at 4421.

7. Unfollowing tools are key these days. I remember when I hit the 2000 cap because my ratio wasn't so great. Thank goodness for mass unfollow!

   @pnstlion

8. Very helpful! Thanks!

9. This is great to know. I started using twitter and followed everyone and anyone to boost my follower count. But it became unbearable and I couldnt keep track of what anyon was doing. Slowly, I unfollowed a lot of them, but this mass deletion seems like the best option.

10. Follow me Zac.

    @angadsodhi or https://twitter.com/AngadSodhi

11. Zac, I understand your frustrations. I have around 800+ followers and some times I feel like talking to a group of zombies.

    A majority of my followers are robots or marketers who only care about their products and promotions.

    AutoFollow used to work in the early days. Not any longer.

    @TechThinker

12. I could not agree more. I have had the same thought process regarding bots. I follow things/people that I legitimately interested in on my personal Twitter and I do the same for my business with relevant topics. I don't understand how following a bunch of bots can really help anybody.

13. A few of us have made this point right from the start and it's interesting to see that more and more are finally catching up. It seems every other day there is a mass unfollow post! Thousands of people blindly following thousands of other people was always going to be pointless. No one is getting any value from the messages that flash past, if you are lucky you might login and see something that you are interested in – but it is highly unlikely.

    But that said, with the new Twitter list functionality you can just create a list of people you actually want to follow and keep your main follow count in the 1000s?

    Personally I want to know that the people I follow are of interest to me and the people following me are actually reading my tweets. By the way, TwitterKarma is good for this kind of thing.

14. I would like it if you followed me. I don't post junk.

    @phpgator

15. My only concern or question would be… would it be ethical to unfollow a mass amount of people?

    Thanks,

    Jean

16. Thanks for links but dont u think this is against twitter TOS??????

17. If twitter is beneficial than these are also the dark side of this awesome social tool. Unfortunately spammers attack these kind of platforms first.

    Nice to see such command in our hand.

18. I couldn't keep track of what anyone was doing. Slowly, I followed a lot of them, but this mass deletion seems like the best option.

19. follow me?

    @chewak

20. After the initial honeymoon period with twitter it has now reached the stage where more and more people are taking action to replace quantity with quality. Managing insame amounts of unknowns really hasn't made sense for me from the word go.

21. yeah . i used this before , it's great feature to " banned" people from spamming your twitter account…lol

22. I had no idea we could mass unfollow people! I may do just that. Seems like the only DMs I get these days are people saying, "I sent you a gift. Send me one back." WHAT? I get enough of that silliness on Facebook. Now Twitter?? To me, that's the kiss of death on Twitter…it gets them unfollowed and sometimes blocked. I don't have time for that. Great post, Zac!

23. Excellent additions to the toolchest. I wish I'd had some of these a few months ago. Manually unfollowing dormant accounts a handful at a time is painful. Feel free to follow @perfectlyshaped.

24. Follow me: https://Twitter.com/jeffcampbell

25. I started off with Twitter the same way and I was following everyone who followed me. Finally I just lost interest in the account. I think I need to do this same exercise. Thanks for the resources. I'll follow you again once I'm down to zero. BTW I'm cashlash on twitter

26. @hanji – money-code:

    There are always people who will remove you as well but I unfollowed 5,500 + people and my follower count only went down by about 220.

    Also, there is a much better tool: https://unfollowall.twitterbotscript.com/
    Does not require you to enter your login details (secure) and you do not have to wait for the page to load to delete users it will run within 10 mins and delete your followers.

27. I agree with you Zac, do follow me at

    twitter.com/dinonodotcom

    Thanks! 🙂

28. John Chow has also been blogging on this topic. The days of being a twitter-slut seems to be over now, thank goodness! The new lists feature of twitter will also help to categorise the remainder of the flock 😉

29. Thanks! I did not this tips! Im gonna use it!

30. I agree with you , do follow me at

    twitter.com/siteexpert

    Thanks! 🙂

31. Alright there is someone that goes under the twiiter name The_Illuminati that follows anyone that mentions illuminati in a tweet. They always say "we are now monitoring your activity" Now I believe they are real but still..

32. i tried cloudappears. it worked great. "twitter follower" required me to register for an account and was more for online marketers.. no thanks.

33. Does anyone know if twitter has any limits for the number of people you can follow?

34. Nice post and thanks for highlighting it now i can do some updates for my twitter account and let see I hit them in right way.

35. Lol this post is amazing.I just randomly followed people so that they follow me.Now that I have got some followers,it will be easy to unfollow many others in bulk 😛
    Thanks.!

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