X Bot Remover
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Automates removal of X (Twitter) Bot followers from your own account. Uses adjustable rules to identify bots
This extension is Open Source - Find the code here: https://github.com/vanrohan/xbotremover
Why remove bot followers:
Your followers and what they Like, influences your "For you" feed. This gives power to the botnet owners to promote content they choose on X. It's best not to have any of these bots in your followers.
Why unfollow bad accounts:
Many troll accounts are operated from countries abroad, use the "Country blacklist" feature to remove these. You can find the Country Blacklist under Extension Options.
Your following list can grow fast, especially if you accept the proposed grouped account follow suggestions. This impacts your feed. Use this extension to automate removal of accounts that meet certain criteria, e.g. remove all inactive accounts, or accounts that have "paypal.me" in the bio description.
This can clean up your feed.
Usage:
- Navigate to your followers list, usually at "https://x.com/YOUR_USERNAME/followers"
- Open the X Bot Remover extension.
- Review parameters, by default it will remove all followers (suspected bots) with:
- Less than 50 followers themselves
- Following more than 1000
- Have 0 posts (i.e. zero posting activity - you might want to increase this slightly)
- Make sure your "Messages" panel is minimised before you start the process, otherwise it will interfere with the automation.
Notes:
- If "Dry Run" is selected (Default: On) - it means no followers will be removed, but you can see who would be removed.
- Press F12 to follow the logic in the console log.
More information at: https://vanderwalt.de/blog/x-bot-remover
Change list:
- Added removal option based on account's country of operation as reported by X. Note that this is different to the user reported location. Warning: Adding this option slows down iteration speed.
- Extension Options now support saving a Blackllist and Whitelist of usernames.
- "Skip nr of users" has been replaced with "Skip until username" - for batch processing removals.
- You can now run the automations to unfollow accounts matching the rules.
- Added a "Match text in bio" rule, that can unfollow any account with specified text in their bio.
- Added a "Username Blacklist", these users will be removed if the username is encountered in your followers (See Extension Options)
- Extension options for custom automation timing
- Bug fixed in Posts parsing and improved latest tweet age calculation
- Added "Inactivity Period" rule - Removes followers where latest post is older than X days.
- Added a "Default profile pic" rule - Removes followers that have no profile pic set.
- Added a "Settings Page" - allowing to store technical parameters relating to the automation.
- Added a "Nr of digits in username >=" rule - will remove followers with names like "Karen1234567"
- Improved follower processing logic resulting in significant speedup.
- Added a "Skip number of followers" input, so that you can resume a bot removal session from deeper into your follower list. This is useful if you have a large number of followers.
- Bug fix on follower processing error
Latest reviews
- Jeffrey Sosebee
- What is this? I click to scan something, it loads into the first profile on the list and scans that profile's followers. This ain't a two-tab operation anymore!
- Jay Cie (Bry)
- Unsure what rating to give this extension. I have a Chromebook as opposed to a Windows machine, so no "F12" key. On X, I have a larger account, >36K followers and >32K following. The reason I wanted to try an extension is that every day, I get about 5 similar follows from the same source, all new bot accounts with a photo of an oriental female and a generic American name, all with the same link to some theater that appears to be in China. For years I have had to waste time removing or blocking these accounts. Reporting them does no good. I followed the instructions for this extension, opened it on my followers tab as instructed, and left it set for "test run." It began working, I went on to another tab to read my email, and came back to find the extension stopped with "3 removed" and something like 100 processed. **But I did not get to see which accounts were "removed," or suggested for removal, as there's no button to click for a window with that info to come up. The reason I wanted a trial run was to see what the extension did first. **Questions: -Does this extension fully function on a Chromebook? -If so, how to see the results of the test run or the results of which followers were suggested to be removed or removed? Thank you.
- Ryan
- works a charm, takes a bit of time but does the job. Thank you for making this available
- Reed Darsey
- Works great. This extension gives the user complete control over the removal process.
- Thomas
- "Failed to communicate with content script. Make sure you are on the X.com followers page." I am. Doesn't work.
- Samuel C Okanume
- I wish I saw this sooner.... This is a lifesaver. Thanks a lot. I really appreciate.
- Tony Rome
- I like this a lot because bots are a real problem on X. I wish I could access the Code as I have some ideas that would be a big help to me and, possible others.
- CS Fredrickson
- Worked like a charm
- Eric Osserman
- Fantastic! So easy a Boomer could do it! Thank you for creating the extension and sharing it. Would have bought you two coffees, but I don't trust Stripe.
- Raymond Jewell
- What a great tool, thanks.
- Hasan Kose
- very useful extension, simple to use. it helped me clean up most of the bots.
- Gleb Shalimov
- Such a simple and such a useful extension, thank you
- Monkey D Luffy
- Works perfectly thanks for this. Removing 500+ bot followers in x account is hectic, when you done manually. So it just made my task easy peasy.
- Mariia Bodnar
- Random followers without any activity is a new reality on X. Glad there is a tool to automate the manual work of removing them!