How Do You Remove a Follower from Twitter?

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The new "Remove this follower" feature on X, formerly known as Twitter, makes it easy to take somebody off your follower list without having to block them. While this feature isn't available in the X mobile app, you can remove followers by visiting X in your web browser, even on your Android, iPhone, or iPad. We'll show you how to remove a follower from X without blocking them, and how to block a follower so they can't follow you back in the future.

Deleting Twitter Followers

Removing a Follower

Go to https://www.twitter.com in a web browser. The "Remove this follower" feature is only available when you visit X in a web browser on your computer, phone or tablet—it's not available in the X mobile app. When you remove a follower, that person can still follow you again in the future if you haven't made your X account private. If you don't want this person to contact you at all on X, block them instead. Removing a follower will not send a notification to that person, but they may notice that they are no longer following you if they stop seeing your tweets in their timeline.

Go to the profile of the person you want to remove. You can click or tap their name in the feed, or search for their name using the search tool. If you want to remove multiple followers at once, it'll be easier to do so from your own profile. Click or tap your profile icon at the top, select Profile, and then click the Followers count at the top of the page. This lists everyone who follows you.

Click or tap the three dots at the top of the person's profile. A menu will expand. If you went to your own profile in the previous step, click or tap the three dots to the right of the person you want to remove.

Select Remove this follower. A confirmation message will appear.

Click or tap Remove to confirm. This removes the person from your followers list.

Blocking a Follower

Open the X app or visit https://www.twitter.com. If you want to remove a follower permanently and prevent them from following you again, you can block their account. Blocked users will be unable to contact you in any way on X.

Go to the profile of the person you want to block. You can do this by clicking or tapping that person's profile icon in the feed, or by searching for their user name. You can also scroll down to one of the person's posts and unfollow them right from the news feed. Scroll to a tweet from the person you want to block, and then move to the next step.

Click or tap the three dots on the person's profile or tweet. A menu will expand.

Select the Block option. A confirmation message will appear.

Click or tap Block again to confirm. This prevents this user from following you or contacting you on X as long as they are signed in with this blocked account. If you were following this person, you'll no longer be following them after blocking.