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Commerce · January 7, 2014

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Quick "Unfollow Everybody" script for Twitter

So I just did my semi-annual "log in to Twitter to see if it's any good yet", and found that in my absence I had followed a few thousand new spam accounts. Sweet. That explains why they emailed me and forced me to change my password last year. Being Awesome, Twitter doesn't have any way to simply toss out all your followers and start from scratch. And none of the spammy apps claiming to do so actually will (even seemingly after charging you money to try). So instead, I just pulled open the Dev console and did this:…

Quick "Unfollow Everybody" script for Twitter launched on January 7, 2014 with 11 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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This is a developer console script for Twitter users who want to unfollow all accounts at once. It automates the unfollowing process by running JavaScript code directly in the browser, removing approximately 1,000 accounts per minute. The tool is designed for users who have accumulated unwanted follows, including spam accounts, and want to clean their following list without using unreliable third-party services. It requires manual execution in the browser's developer console on Twitter's following page.

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So I just did my semi-annual "log in to Twitter to see if it's any good yet", and found that in my absence I had followed a few thousand new spam accounts. Sweet. That explains why they emailed me and forced me to change my password last year. Being Awesome, Twitter doesn't have any way to simply toss out all your…

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