unfollow

An npm tool to unfollow twitter accounts.

Setup

You will need valid Twitter developer credentials in the form of a set of consumer and access tokens/keys. You can get these by creating a new app here.

You must set the follwing environment variables from the app created in the previous step:

• TWT_CONSUMER_KEY
• TWT_CONSUMER_SECRET
• TWT_ACCESS_TOKEN,
• TWT_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

Now, install the package:

npm install -g unfollow

Usage

Options:

-u, --user twitter username to unfollow

-s, --stale conditionally unfollow users whose data is stale by n days

-h, --help Show help

Examples

The following command will unfollow the specific user:

unfollow --user @cnn

The following command will prompt you to unfollow all users who have no new content in the last 365 days:

unfollow --stale 365