How to Unfollow Everyone on X: A Complete Reset Guide

Sometimes trimming isn’t enough and you want a clean slate: a new direction for an account, a feed that no longer reflects you, or a brand account inherited with thousands of random follows. X has no “unfollow all” button, so unfollowing everyone means working through your whole list — by hand or with a tool — within the limits X applies to every account.

This guide covers whether a full reset is the right move, what to save before you start, and how to do it in stages.

Is a full reset the right call?

Unfollowing everyone is drastic and slow to undo. Consider the alternatives first:

• A partial cleanup removes non-followers, inactive accounts or obvious spam and keeps the rest. See how to clean up your X following list.
• Muting hides an account’s posts without unfollowing.
• Lists let you keep up with accounts in a separate timeline without following them from your main feed.

A full reset makes most sense when the following list has very little you want to keep — and when you’re willing to rebuild deliberately afterwards.

Before you start: save what you might want later

1. Export your following list. In UnfollowX Pro, scan your following list and use Export on the Following page to download a CSV with handles, names, profile links and more. It’s your record of who you followed. The CSV guide explains the columns.
2. Optionally request X’s archive. X’s data archive is a second, official copy of your account data. It can take a few days to arrive.
3. Whitelist the handful you’ll keep. Even in a full reset most people keep a few accounts — a partner, a close friend, a work account. Whitelisted accounts are never unfollowed, even in “unfollow all” mode.

Option 1: Unfollow everyone by hand

On your profile, open Following and press the Following button next to each account to unfollow it. For a list under a hundred or so accounts, that’s a quiet half hour. For thousands, it isn’t realistic — and rapid clicking can still run into X’s limits.

Option 2: Use “Unfollow all” in UnfollowX Pro

UnfollowX Pro has an explicit mode for a full reset:

1. Install the extension, open x.com signed in to the account and press Scan my following.
2. Check your whitelist and Keep rules. The Kept tab on the dashboard’s Following page shows exactly who is protected.
3. In Settings, pick a pace. For a big reset, Safe (15–35 seconds between actions, a 10-minute break every 30, 250 per day) or Balanced (8–20 seconds, 6 minutes every 50, 400 per day) are sensible.
4. In the popup, choose Unfollow all… and read the confirmation carefully. This includes people who follow you back.
5. Let it run. It works in the background and pauses by itself when the daily limit is reached, then continues automatically.

You can pause, resume or stop at any time, and Alt + Shift + S stops the run immediately. If X asks the extension to slow down, it rests; if X asks you to verify your account, it stops and waits for you.

How long will it take?

With a daily limit in place, a large reset takes days, not minutes. That’s by design.

You don’t need to babysit it: the run continues across days, and History shows exactly what has been done so far.

What to avoid

• Console scripts copied from forums. They often unfollow as fast as the browser allows, with no pacing, no whitelist and no history.
• Tools that ask for your password. A full reset doesn’t require handing over your login.
• Running several tools at once. You’d be stacking their speeds on the same account.

After the reset: rebuild on purpose

An empty following list is a chance to decide what your feed is for. A few habits help:

• Follow in small batches, not hundreds at once — X’s follow limits apply to follows too.
• Use your exported CSV as a reference rather than re-following everything.
• Re-follow specific people from History → Unfollowed with Follow again, which uses the same pacing as unfollows.

Frequently asked questions

Can I undo unfollowing everyone?

Partly. History keeps every account the run unfollowed, so you can select people and follow them again. Re-following restores the follow, not anything else, and private accounts may need to approve a new request.

Will people be notified?

X doesn’t send notifications for unfollows.

Will my followers drop?

Unfollowing doesn’t remove your followers. Some people may unfollow you back once they notice, which you can track with a follower tracker.

The bottom line

Unfollowing everyone on X is simple in principle and slow in practice. Back up your list, protect the few accounts you’ll keep, choose a gentle pace and let the run work through it over days. Then rebuild your feed one deliberate follow at a time.