Force everyone not on a twitter list to unfollow you

twitter-unfollow-me

After you install and set up the twitter command line tool at https://github.com/sferik/t this script can be used to remove all followers not on a list (called "trusted" in this example). This is useful if you have a public twitter account and you change it to be private.

#!/bin/sh
#set -x

trusted=$( t list members trusted )
followers=$( t followers )
follower_list=$( echo $followers | tr " " "\n" )

i=0
for follower in $follower_list; do
  if [[ ! "${trusted}" =~ "${follower}" ]]; then
    echo $follower >> removed_followers
    t block $follower
    t delete block $follower
    i=$(($i + 1))
  fi
done
echo "${i} users are no longer following you"