Twitter/X Bulk Sorter and Unfollower

Why did I build this?

• Twitter has a limit on the number of accounts you can follow, and I wasn't able to follow more than 5K twitter account. As a workaround, I site every once in a while, and unfollow few dozen accounts so that I can follow the new accounts I find interesting.
• I also wanted to clean my feed and only follow the accounts I care about
• And have been itching a little bit to get my hands dirty with some browser automation scripts.

How does it work?

1. Downloads the list of accounts you are following

• Go to get_follower_list.py, update the username and password. This script will download your following list in followers_list.txt

2. Get profiles data

• Then you collect the name, description and the first two tweets for each profile in followers_list.txt. The output is saved in following_data.json

3. Sort through the profiles

• First copy following_data.json to reviewer_frontend/data.json
• Then cd reviewer_frontend
• npm install
• npm run dev
  Go to http://localhost:3000 and you'll be able to mark profiles ot unfollow by pressing u and profiles to keep by pressing k. Can sort through 500 profiles in 10 minutes.
• Click download sorted data button to get the marked profiles

4. Unfollow the marked profiles in bulk

• Run bulk_unfollow.py to unfollows all accounts you are following except the ones keep_list.txt

How to run it on a server?

• Install xvfb virtual display
• Export the display env variable
• Run as speciied

Learnings

• The fast data sorter UI is a killer. I can sort through 500 twitter profiles in 10 minutes.
• I was impressed with the ability to easily load cookies and preserve them across sessions.
• The new thing (for me) was also the ability to run the script on a server with virtual display, that means I can run the script and forget it.
• Playwright is very stable and smooth. GPT is pretty good at writing Playwright automation scripts.