Twitter: You can now delete unwanted followers without blocking them

It’s not uncommon to have people on your follower list with whom you don’t want to share your life, and until now the only alternative to hiding your profile was to block them. You don’t need to do this anymore because Twitter finally added a button to easily remove a follower from your account.

Twitter’s support page said last month that the company would make it easier to remove a follower, or as it puts it, ” Be the curator of your own follower list “. After testing this feature with limited groups, Twitter now makes it available to all users on PC. It doesn’t appear on mobile yet.

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How to delete followers on Twitter?

To remove a follower on Twitter, go to your profile and go to the “followers” section. Find the person you want to block and click on the three-dot menu next to their name. Click “Remove this follower” and that’s it. Note that followers you remove will not be notified of this change.

This practice, called “soft blocking,” differs from standard blocking because it allows the deleted person to continue seeing your tweets and sending you direct messages, but they won’t be able to see your tweets in their feed. The problem is If he finds out that you deleted him from your followers, he will always have the option to follow you again.. However, if he subscribes to your profile again, you will have no choice but to consider blocking him directly.

This discreet action could help alleviate platform users’ concerns about privacy and abuse. Previously, when users wanted to achieve the same effect had to manually block and unblock a follower. This isn’t the first time Twitter has struggled against these unwanted followers, as the social network recently introduced a mode that automatically blocks troll accounts.