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Unfollow All – Sometimes, You Just Want To Start Over

written by John Chow on November 8th, 2009

Are you getting tired of receiving a thousand DM spam on Twitter everyday? Are you following so many people that your iPhone Twitter app no longer works because it can’t download all the updates? Do you feel like starting over with a clean slate? Well now you can with my newest Twitter service, UnfollowAll.com.

Enter your Twitter information into Unfollow All, hit the start unfollowing button and it will nuke everyone you’re following on twitter. Once your following count hits zero, you can start a fresh list by following only the people you want to follow. Be absolutely sure you want to do this because once you hit the button, there’s no going back!

Unlike some other Twitter unfollow services, Unfollow All is completely free to use and I have no intention of every charging for it. The service is a good way to find out just how much influence you really have on Twitter. Many big Twitter accounts with a lot of followers got that way because they mass follow everyone with the hope of getting followed back. Unfollowing your entire list will mean only those that are truly interested in you will continue to follow you. The rest will unfollow you because you unfollow them.

If you only wish to unfollow people who are not following you, then you can use Twitter Follower.

Unfollow All – Sometimes, You Just Want To Start Over

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  1. Great idea John. This would also be a good way to test your personal branding. Do you think this would be a good idea to try every 6 months to see how your infulence has grown?

  2. I nodded along until the second-to-last sentence:

    Unfollowing your entire list will mean only those that are truly interested in you will continue to follow you.

    You couldn’t be farther from the truth. If I don’t have an mutual unfollow script set up, I will never know (or it will take a heck of a long time to know) if you unfollowed me.

  3. You went from Twitter Follower to UnfollowAll. Quite the complete opposite, but I can see how it’s useful. lol

  4. Why not start a new account? You could be stricter with whom you follow with the new account.

  5. There’s many websites like that. So your probably getting paid to say this. :twisted:

  6. haha…I just used that service last week!
    http://twitter.com/stickycarrots

    I unfollowed everyone and ended up losing 4,000 followers because of it. It’s much easier to actually follow the people I am following now :)

  7. If your application can’t handle a large number of Twitter users, then follow the RSS feeds of selected users with an RSS reader application. There is no need to unfollow everyone if one application has problems doing it.

  8. I’ve never heard any services like this, perhaps I don’t know it at all. I have been following about 1200 twitter user right now, if I unfollow all of them I believe that most of them will unfollow me as well. lol!

    So John, is this your site? ;)

  9. This happens to most of services. People jump on it, spam it and then try and clean up stuff later. This is a good service and will save lot of time.

  10. Hm, I like my own system better, first I set my account to private / protected, that gets rid of 99% of the DM and @spam. Then I block / unfollow the spammers that are amongst my followers and weed the ones out whose tweets I am not interested in and sort the others in the new twitter lists. A bit more work and far more effective, imho, SY

  11. That thing really works! I`m down to only one. Thanks!

  12. The only thing I would be concerned about is “follower churn” .

  13. Thanks for making us aware of this new service, i like this one.

  14. This is the service I’ve been looking for. I have aorund 2,000 DMs and every day I’m getting hundreds more. :(

  15. Unfollow All looks like something I may be able to use one day. For now, I’m pretty happy with who I’m following but I’m getting close to the point of wiping that part clean.

    Of course, once I unfollow everyone I’m sure I’ll lose quite a few followers in the process.

  16. Thanks for your share… Much appreciated.

  17. That’s certainly a unique idea. I’m not sure if it would really be useful or not. It seems like it would only be useful for people who are spam following people.

    • I think it’s mostly for people who fell into the “twitter follower frenzy.” After you’ve followed 30,000 people and you realize that you don’t care about more than about 5 of them, you might want to unfollow them and just not be able to.

      For accounts only following a couple of hundred people, this seems a little overkill.

      I’m still fond of unfollowing people who don’t follow me. I have a list I always refollow after I’ve wiped my slate clean of people who aren’t following me.

      The big risk with this is losing followers who automatically unfollow people who don’t follow them.. They might not even notice that they unfollowed you via automation (and start to wonder why you quit tweeting).

      The mass unfollow John did hit is following for about 2 months.. he’s already basically back to where he was when 10,000 people unfollowed him.

  18. Wow!! very innovative! thats what we call thinking out of box…lol people creating tools to increase followers and john chow comes with a totally different tool…UNFOLLOWALL …love it :)

  19. Someone followed me the other day that had zero tweets. Why would I follow them? Are people that lame?

  20. Good ideas!Many ways how to solve the problem!

  21. First of all use those websites which can give you good number of followers and after using that one for few months use this one and clean the garbage … lollzz

  22. Hey John

    What about one more option where we will be able to get list of persons whom we are following so that when we will start following we can select them from this list.

    An excel format will be very nice.

    What do you think ?

  23. is this one of your new site john, this is great idea . i am looking this for a long time .

  24. haha, what great service. I think a lot of people are following to many people on Twitter these days..

  25. How many people can you really “follow” anyway? You can possibly ever read the tweets of more than about 300 people.

  26. thanks for the tool john
    my account has been blocked on twitter for following and following people using external tools, thanks God its now enabled.

    they surely won’t disable an account from the first time but just wanted to tell people to take care not to over do using external tools

  27. Hopefully this new site really unfollows all. Your tiwtter follower project requires me to “unfollow” about 5-10 times before it really unfollows all that are not following me.

    -Mike

  28. This tool is WAAAY too helpful, I just deleted 4000 people off my follower list. Thanks John!

  29. great info thanks man. it gets so annoying after a while, all of those crazy tweets you get. good tool. but the problem is do the presses can begin again , but then this at least gives you a fresh start and a while to be ok.

  30. I followed your link, and it took me straight through to a username and password box, with no option to register. Must I enter with my twitter ID? Great initiative, by the way!

  31. It’s great to know that you have such a great service.
    Cheers,
    Kevin Njoroge

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