Show HN: I made a script to automate removing your Twitter/X followers

2 points

a year ago

I wanted a way to get my old Twitter account down to zero following and zero followers. I removed all the people I follow a while back, but couldn't find a quick, free and easy way to remove the people *following* *me*.

I didn't want to pay for API access just for this. So I wrote a Python "bot" that uses Selenium to act like a human, clicking the "remove follower" button. I was (mildly) surprised how easy it is to make something that can fake being a human on Twitter. It has delays to reduce the likelihood it will trigger anti-bot detection on their end.

I left it running overnight on a spare laptop, and my follower count went from 16K to 8K. So in theory, it'll hit zero tomorrow if I leave it running.

No doubt it might break at some point, but it works for now. YMMV