How to Remove Followers on Twitter

Contributor

By Sabah Karimi
eHow Contributing Writer

Remove Followers on Twitter

Twitter is a web-based social networking application that allows you to post short updates in real-time for other people to keep track of. Unless you protect your Twitter posts, anybody who has a Twitter account can choose to 'Follow' you and be part of your social network. If you don't want someone to follow you on Twitter, you can make use of the 'Block' feature that prevents your updates from showing up in another person's profile page. Here's how to remove followers from your Twitter account.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Twitter account

Step 1

Log in to your Twitter account. Enter your email address or username, and password into the login screen. Sign in to access your account.
Step 2

Select "Followers" from the right hand sidebar. This area is the middle column directly under your profile image. Clicking it will take you to the list of people who are following you on Twitter.
Step 3

Track down the follower you want to block. Scroll through your followers list to find the person that you want to disable the follow feature for. You can scroll through multiple pages using the "Next" button at the bottom right hand corner of the page.
Step 4

Select "Block" next to the follower's name. You will be taken to another screen that will ask you to confirm whether or not you want to block that person.
Step 5

Confirm the block. Select, "OKAY, I STILL WANT TO BLOCK THIS PERSON" to remove him from your followers list.

Tips & Warnings

Selecting "Protect updates" from your Account settings page will allow you to block ALL PEOPLE.
You can only unblock people after adding them as a friend again.
You will no longer show up in the person's list of friends
Select, "Nah, never mind, we're cool" on the final block page if you change your mind.
Unless your Twitter account is protected, avoid posting personal information on Twitter, such as your home address, phone number and other sensitive information.
The person you block will no longer be able to add you as a friend.