How to force someone to unfollow you on Twitter

Have you ever had someone who you wish wasn’t following you on Twitter, but you don’t want to block them? Well, here’s how to force someone to unfollow you on Twitter.

Now, Twitter doesn’t have a force unfollow feature per se, but there is a workaround.

First, bring up a the profile of the person you want to force to unfollow you. Here’s my personal Twitter profile.

Note that near the username, you should see the text “Follows you”.

Next, on the righthand side of the profile, near the blue “Following“ button, click on the three vertical dots.

Click on the “Block” option.

A popup window should appear with some information about blocking. Click on the red “Block” button.

The profile should refresh itself, showing you that you have blocked the person.

If you refresh the page, you should see that the “Follows you” text has disappeared.

Hover over the “Blocked” button on the right hand side of the page.

It should change to “Unblock”. Click on that.

Now the person has been forced to unfollow you and will never receive a notification that it happened. And when they visit your profile, they won’t see that you have blocked them, which they would see if you had just blocked them.

Watch the video below to see it in action. It’s under 2 minutes.

Let me know in the comments what you think of this trick.

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By Kim Siever

I am a copywriter and copyeditor. I blog on writing and social media tips mostly, but I sometimes throw in my thoughts about running a small business. Follow me on Twitter at @hotpepper.