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You can use this tool to trim your Twitter follow list

Twitter is a mess, but it’s still addictive. While some may have headed to Mastodon, those who stay around might still want to make the most of the bird site. If you feel your timeline is very cluttered, a new tool called Prune your follows can really help.

The platform displays the people you follow in four categories: Overpopular (most followed), Underpopular (least followed), Overactive (accounts that tweet a lot) and Unactive [sic] (accounts that tweet a little bit). With this app, you can quickly unfollow accounts that you no longer want to follow. A side menu lets you see all the accounts you’ve unfollowed through the app.

Accrording to TechCrunch, Queen Raae (the developer behind Prune you follows) said that she built Prune your follows because she was reaching the platform’s follow limit.

“I hit the 5000 followers limit (after almost 16 years on Twitter) and couldn’t find an account to unfollow. Twitter has only one view of the accounts you follow, with the most recently followed on top. So I built my own account.”

Twitter enforces its own API limitations. An app can facilitate 50 unfollows per 15 minutes, and 500 per day. If the app reaches the limit, you can click on the individual profile and unfollow them directly.

Raae is experimenting with multiple features to overcome this limitation. One option is to display a total counter on the website or stagger access to the tool. She’s also considering adding a feature that lets people add Twitter accounts to a list. Using that list on Twitter, they can then unfollow all the accounts at once.

According to her, early users have asked for more filters, such as a list of accounts that don’t follow them back and how many interactions they have had with that account. It was also Raae’s idea to introduce a customized filter so users could search for something like “Show me all web3 accounts with fewer than 3000 followers.”

Although Twitter has already made some improvements, some developers say what’s needed to make the app enjoyable again is an API tweak. However, the Elon Musk-led company has shut down multiple developer-related initiatives in recent years.

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