How to Mass Unfollow on Twitter

Tim 14 Comments

Have you ever wanted to remove some of your followers on twitter? Twitter does not provide a native way to do this, but you can automate it in your browsers developer console.

Steps:

  1. Using Chrome, login to your Twitter account and go to your follower’s page (https://twitter.com/following)
  2. Make sure you are using the Classic version of Twitter’s website.
  3. Open developer tools in your Chrome browser CMD+Option+C (Mac) or Control+Shift+C (Windows, Linux, Chrome OS)
  4. Go to the Console tab
  5. Paste in the code below and press enter
$('.unfollow-text').trigger('click')

This command will find all the unfollow buttons on the page and click them. So however many followers you have displayed will be immediately unfollowed.

 

I thought this was a neat trick to clean up your followers. Hope you find it useful.

Debugging Go Error

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After a recent upgrade to macOS Mojave, my machine was not able to debug in GoLand due to the error below:

could not launch process: exec: "lldb-server": executable file not found in $PATH

To fix this you have to install xcode-select, a command-line utility on macOS: Type in the command below into your terminal to install xcode-select.

xcode-select --install

After installing xcode-select, everything was working.

How to Exclude Files from a Zip Archive

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When zipping a folder using the command line in macOS, you may have noticed certain files are include such as DS_Store and __MACOSX are included. With a few command arguments, these files can be filtered out.

Exclude All Hidden Files

zip -r zipFolderName.zip pathToFolder -x "*.*"

Exclude .DS_Store and __MACOSX

zip -r zipFolderName.zip pathToFolder -x "*.DS_Store" "__MACOSX*"

Exclude all jpegs

zip -r zipFolderName.zip pathToFolder -x "*.jpegs"

Hopefully this helps you filter out unwanted files when zipping folders in macOS.

Seth’s First, ten

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Seth’s post titled First, ten from back in 2009 is still relevant today. If you are building a product, finding your first ten users can be challenging but they are the first step to 100 then a 1,000 and so on.

Plan on the gradual build that turns into a tidal wave.

Be patient and stay motivated. Three years ago when I made the first commit for my weather extension, I never could have imaged it would have grown to over 200,000 active users. I was focused on the first 10 users and listened to their feedback. With many ups and downs, it has been a great journey so far. Here’s to another new year!