If you have been using twitter for a long time now, chances are you’re following a relatively large number of users (hundred or even thousands), at which stage you probably can’t keep up with their updates, regardless of which client you’re using and how you’re using it. At least that’s what happened to me.
Unfollow everyone is a move started originally by Loic Le Meur, who unfollowed everyone in his Twitter account, and slowly started adding people back.
It immediately caught my attention, and struck a cord with me, it’s the equivalent of hitting the refresh button. It makes twitter interesting again, by starting fresh and slowly focusing on adding a selected few of users with very relevant and valuable updates.
We created a small script that would unfollow all of your friends and You can use the script from within this page:
We promise you not to store your details (username or password), but just in case you’re still paranoid, you can download the script from here, edit your account information and run it yourself.
I personally used the script and hope it helps some of you who are in my same position. Let me know if you have any feedback.
March 27th, 2009 at 6:21 am
I personally took another approach on managing twitter contacts : unfollow mercilessly.
Each time I visit my twitter home page, I remove clutter by unfollowing people that seem irrelevant for me at that moment. Of course it’s common for me to follow people again later.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@DrBaher courageous step Dr, i was reducing slowly, some i do want to follow but i cant keep track with their over twits, please guys relax
June 30th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
[...] fight this, the fine folks at CloudAppers have released a simple and easy to use script to Unfollow everyone. This will first allow you to breathe and enter a zen-like place of Twitquility (clever!). [...]
July 9th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I cannot get this to work. the box on your page returns the following error
Success Connate
/friends/ids.xml This method requires a GET. /friends/ids.xml Go to hell
This method requires a GET. Go to hell
August 22nd, 2009 at 9:10 am
Error message:
Success Connate
/friends/ids.xml This method requires a GET. /friends/ids.xml Go to hell
This method requires a GET. Go to hell
September 20th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
this is wonderful!
It worked so great
I laughed when I saw “go to hell”
hahahah
this is the ONLY thing i could find that actually unfollowed EVERYONE
September 20th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
this is wonderful!
It worked so great
I laughed when I saw “go to hell”
hahahah
this is the ONLY thing i could find that actually unfollowed EVERYONE.
huitter doesn’t have the “unfollow all” feature anymore
and twitter karma never seems to unfollow everyone, it just unfollowed about 1,000 then stopped
I had to unfollow over 8,000 people
and this script did it extremely fast!
Thank you
September 27th, 2009 at 3:12 am
WHOW! Great application! I would like to offer this to more people too! I bet this can be very useful!
October 13th, 2009 at 2:02 am
Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that we’re using parts of this script for http://unfolloweveryone.com
If you have any objections let me know (we’ll obviously put some credit in there for you)
October 13th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Be my guest, feel free to use it for your website and let me know once it’s up and running.
October 13th, 2009 at 3:10 am
Will do
I think you’ll like it!
October 16th, 2009 at 11:19 am
October 19th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
[...] of two sites scripts running at the same time. TwitterFollower.com has a mass unfollow option, and CloudAppears will just unfollow everyone. I filled out both forms and just let them run til I was back at [...]
October 19th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
[...] of two sites scripts running at the same time. TwitterFollower.com has a mass unfollow option, and CloudAppears will just unfollow everyone. I filled out both forms and just let them run til I was back at [...]
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:25 pm
[...] doing it the old fashion way and then my best friend made a script and put it on his site.Go to cloudappers to unfollow all the people you have followed. I did this and now I am happy and have started [...]
November 12th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
[...] Buechele mentioned a great site to me called CloudAppers. This site basically allows you reformat those you follow on Twitter. All you do is type in [...]
November 15th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
worked great! thanks a bunch!
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
I used it. Danke!
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:43 pm
that was amazing - thanks for saving me about 3 days of clicking like I’m mental…
November 24th, 2009 at 10:57 am
it worked great, thank you very much
@siteexpert
November 24th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I would like to offer the script to my readers of my blog as well. Thanks for finally releasing a working copy.
December 16th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
A very useful tool when you realize that as a music site you ought to be following music-related Tweets but don’t have time to Unfollow the five hundred plus Twits you’re already following. Thanks CloudAppers!
December 21st, 2009 at 10:49 am
I followed over 1000 random people hoping that they’d follow me back. Many did, but very few of them were actually listening to my tweets. I also couldn’t enjoy twitter anymore because the tweets from the <100 people I actually wanted to follow were lost in a bunch of useless and spam tweets. Actually works, but not immediately (if you refresh your page once a minute or so you can see your following number gradually decreasing). Thanks a lot :)BTW, I had to block an account called Washingtonson to stop getting their tweets, but apart from that it unfollowed everyone.
January 2nd, 2010 at 6:31 am
This is a great tool! I had “gunked” up my twitter account with people I didn’t really care to follow. This is the best tool I found!
January 20th, 2010 at 9:50 am
THANK GOD FOR THIS! I REPEAT, THANK GOD FOR THIS!
January 28th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Good Web app
really a good value app
congrats
January 30th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Works great.
February 1st, 2010 at 2:09 am
Is it possible to tell the service not to unfollow certain people? And is it possible to tell it just to unfollow who’s not following you?
February 1st, 2010 at 10:05 am
@Chris, the script doesn’t do that, it just unfollows all of the people you’re following.
But there are other services that allows you to unfollow only those who’re not following you.
Check out this: http://www.twi5.com/huitter-mutuality-bulk-unfollow-twitter-users-not-following-you/3016/