Having followers you don’t want on Twitter is more common than people think. Maybe it’s spam accounts, bots, or just someone you’d rather not have access to your posts.
Whatever the reason, knowing how to delete Twitter followers gives you more control over who’s actually in your audience.
Can You Actually Delete Twitter Followers?
Technically, Twitter doesn’t have a button that says “delete this follower.” What the platform gives you instead is the ability to remove a follower — which does the same thing without blocking them permanently.
Here’s what removing a follower actually does:
- They no longer follow you and won’t see your posts in their feed
- They don’t get notified that you removed them
- They can still find your profile and re-follow you if your account is public
- It’s not the same as blocking — they still have access to your public content
If you want a harder cutoff, blocking is the way to go. But for general audience cleanup, removing works fine.
How to Remove Followers on Twitter Step by Step
Twitter buried this feature a bit, but here’s exactly where to find it.
On Desktop:
- Go to your Profile and click Followers
- Find the follower you want to remove
- Click the three-dot menu next to their name
- Select “Remove this follower”
- Confirm the action
Done. They’re removed and won’t know it happened.
On Mobile (iOS or Android):
- Tap your Profile picture to open the menu
- Go to Profile then tap Followers
- Find the account you want to remove
- Tap the three-dot icon next to their name
- Tap “Remove this follower”
Same result, just on a smaller screen.
Blocking and Unblocking (for a harder reset):
If you want to remove someone and make it harder for them to re-follow, you can:
- Go to their profile
- Tap the three-dot menu
- Select Block, then immediately Unblock
This removes them as a follower and resets the connection — they’d have to manually follow you again, and they won’t get a notification either way.
How to Remove a Lot of Twitter Followers at Once
Doing this one by one is painless for a handful of accounts. For a bigger cleanup — say you’ve got hundreds of bots or inactive followers — manual removal gets tedious fast.
A few options for bulk cleanup:
- Twitter’s own filtering — sort your followers list by newest first to spot recently added bot accounts easily
- Third-party tools — apps like Circleboom or ManageFlitter let you audit and bulk-remove followers based on filters like inactivity, no profile photo, or low engagement
- Soft block at scale — some tools automate the block/unblock method across multiple accounts simultaneously
One thing worth knowing: Twitter’s API has rate limits, so even third-party tools can only process a certain number of actions per hour. If you’re doing a large cleanup, it might take a few sessions spread across a day or two.
