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How To Find Inactive Twitter Followers – 3 Easy Ways To Remove

Lisa Sicard
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Are you looking to find Inactive Twitter followers?. No matter the season, the Twitter X cleaning continues. Why follow peeps who have not tweeted in weeks or months? Learn how you can check and remove idle Twitter followers here on Inspire To Thrive.

Learn how to find inactive Twitter followers to clean up your account. There are several reasons to remove inactive Twitter followers from your Twitter account.

If peeps are not active on the social networking service, it is time to say Goodbye to your lifeless Twitter followers! However, now with Elon Musk in charge, he may get rid of these OLD inactive Twitter accounts.

He was talking about giving the old inactive Twitter users 30 days to decide whether to stay or go via email. Time will tell as he makes massive changes to this social network with each passing day.

To this day it still not has happened as old Twitter accounts remain on the rebranded X platform.

Idle Peeps On Twitter X

For one reason or another, some Twitter users decide to no longer tweet. Or maybe they were suspended by Twitter and decided not to log back in.

Other Twitter users may only log in to read tweets and not send any tweets out. For whatever reason, these people remain inactive on Twitter.

How do you find these inactive Twitter followers? Or those that you followed who have turned inactive on Twitter?

3 Great Ways To Find Inactive Twitter Followers

There are some great tools you can use to who are your inactive Twitter followers. These are the ones that are no longer following you and view how long it has been since they last tweeted. They may have been fake or old bot accounts.

Why waste your Twitter stream with folks that are lifeless and/or irrelevant to your tweets?

Most of these Twitter tools below have a FREE and a paid version to check for inactive Twitter followers. The paid versions of these Twitter tools have a lot of bells and whistles for you to grow your Twitter account.

With the recent changes in the API, most of these services had to charge more.

How To Delete Inactive Twitter Followers With 2 Tools

CircleBloom For Twitter Management

Circlebloom – Users can directly see and filter inactive Twitter accounts with Circleboom.

They offer various Twitter services such as: Twitter Followers Insights, Follower Tracking, Account Analytics, Advanced Twitter Search and Delete Tweet services.

Fedica (Formerly) TweepsMap – An Oldie Revised

Fedica – You can have emails sent daily or weekly. Then, you set up how often to receive them. Finally, you can find the users quickly on Twitter and unfollow if they have recently unfollowed you.

However, if they have value in their tweets I will continue to follow them. (Like I still follow Neil Patel as you see in an example further below.)

I do not recommend going right directly from the email to Twitter to unfollow inactive Twitter followers.

Twitter does not like 3rd party apps for following and unfollowing and could lock you out. (Although it hasn’t happened to me.)

The New Twitter Layout Shows Who Follows You or Not Now

When Twitter changed its layout a few years back they gave us a new feature right on the Twitter stream.

As you can see in the example below Neil Patel is not following me back on Twitter. Do note as well, that you can see who else is following from your Twitter account that you follow.


But as you can see below Bad Red Head Media is following me back and notice how you can see who else is following back:

This is a much better way to see who follows you or unfollows you. In addition, it will keep you from being locked out of Twitter as Twitter doesn’t like those 3rd party apps! (However, it does take longer to find these unfollowers than the Twitter tools above.)

And then there is a newer service for Twitter that Ileane Smith tweeted about a few years back: (She always has the latest on cool new and older tools.)

Followers – How Many Can You Unfollow On Twitter X?

Twitter has rules about how many you can follow and unfollow in a day. You must be careful not to be seen as churning spam, particularly by automated means.

If you are one to follow and unfollow daily you may get noticed by Twitter and could be a cause for concern.

Today you can follow up to 400 people per day. But, if your Twitter account is verified that number climbs to 1,000 people that you may follow.

In addition, every Twitter account can follow up to 5,000 accounts. Once you reach that number, you may need to wait until your account has more followers before you can follow additional accounts.

This number is different for each account and is automatically calculated based on your unique ratio of followers to following accounts according to Twitter. It sounds like a secret recipe. Maybe Elon will share the secret and change this outdated Twitter rule.

So be careful not to constantly follow and unfollow. You must also read my eBook so you don’t end up in Twitter jail – it really exists!

6 Reasons To Find and Remove Idle Twitter Followers

  1. They haven’t tweeted in weeks or months.
  2. People don’t tweet in your areas of interest, why continue to follow them?
  3. They do not interact with you when you tweet or retweet them.
  4. Other accounts don’t have a face or icon associated with their account – why did you follow in the first place?
  5. No profile pictures. What are these Twitter peeps about? What is their purpose for being on Twitter? Be sure to fill out your bio completely if you want to be followed.
  6. Lastly, they tweet constantly. They fill up your stream with not-so-great content. Maybe they should use Aograpulse to schedule their tweets.  

Your Turn on How to Remove Inactive Twitter Followers

Have you been able to find your idle Twitter followers and those who you follow who are inactive on Twitter? If you still want to keep tabs on some of these folks on Twitter you can easily put them on a Twitter list. 

I’d love to know more in the comments below on how you go about unfollowing others on Twitter X.

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