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Unblocking twitter accounts

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Date: 2023-12-05
Tags: x.com twitter javascript scripting social media

I block twitter accounts. A lot.

I can't recall I've blocked somebody over a comment or an interaction.

But I block the advertiser of every advertisement.

I block fake posters and likers of my content.

I probably had 15,000 blocked accounts. I follow like 2,000.

But with X going Premium and offering no ads, I thought it'd be a good time to forgive and forget (or soft delete as it were), and go back to 0 blocked users and see what happens.

Here's a script I ran to click "unblock" for every account I was blocking.

https://gist.github.com/afomi/7dd3544d2497a9a3c74846291b864036

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