The best X unfollow tools, and how to judge one
Six questions that tell you whether an unfollow tool is safe to install. The first one rules out most of them.
Six questions will tell you whether an unfollow tool is worth installing. The first one rules out most of them.
The six questions
- Does it ask for your X password? If yes, stop. You would be handing full control of your account to a stranger, and the traffic pattern, a data centre login doing hundreds of follow actions, is exactly what X's automation detection is built to catch. The risk lands on your account, not theirs.
- Does it show you its pacing? A tool advertising speed is selling the thing that gets accounts blocked. Look for stated delays and cooldowns. Ours are 5 to 12 seconds between actions, a pause every 45, and a stop at 400 a day.
- Can it filter by last post date? The most useful filter there is, and the one X does not give you. Without it you are barely ahead of doing this by hand.
- Can you protect accounts before running? One misconfigured filter without this costs you people you meant to keep, and there is no undo.
- What happens to your follow graph? Some tools upload your entire following and follower list to their servers. Check whether that happens, whether you can opt out, and what they say they do with it.
- Is there a daily cap? A tool that will happily run a thousand unfollows in an hour is not protecting you from anything.
The three architectures
Every tool in this category works one of three ways, and it determines the risk more than any feature does.
A browser extension on your own session
Runs inside the tab you are already signed into, acting as your browser from your computer on your existing login. No password changes hands. The trade: it only works while your browser is open, and you are trusting the extension with access to the pages it runs on, so read the permissions.
A web app on the official API
You authorise it the way you authorise any app, and it acts through X's official interface. Revocable from your X settings, which is a genuine advantage. The trade: API access has become expensive and heavily rate limited, so these tools cap what you can do per day or per month, and several have shut down since 2023.
A service that logs in as you
Avoid. See question one.
| Approach | Credentials | Works when closed | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browser extension | Your existing session | No | Low |
| Official API app | Revocable authorisation | Yes | Low, but capped |
| Password-based service | Your password | Yes | High |
The names people ask about
Circleboom is a long-running web app with unfollow tools alongside posting and analytics, sold as two separate subscriptions. Twitter Management starts at $16.24 a month, with the Pro tier at $31.99. Fuller comparison.
Hypefury and Typefully are worth naming only to say they are not unfollow tools. Both are for writing and scheduling. Neither touches your follow graph.
The free web tools topping search results for “unfollow everyone on Twitter” deserve care. Several are password-based, several were built against an API version that no longer exists, and the ones still working often monetise by keeping your follow graph.
Ours
A browser extension. Filters by last post date, follower count, verification and location. Bulk unfollow, bulk follower removal, and tracking of who unfollowed you. Protecting mutuals and individual accounts happens before anything runs. Free, no account required.
The limitation worth knowing: because it runs in your browser, it stops when you close it. If you need unattended scheduling, an API-based tool suits you better, and its daily caps will be lower than you want.