Lists are often ignored by most people on Twitter. Twitter lists can be a great way to organize your contacts. More often than not, they are not used for that purpose.
Someone recently added me to a Twitter list which was not appropriate for my account. There was no way to remove me from the list since it was not created by me. Hence I googled about a way to remove myself from the list and on finding not many articles, I wrote this post.
To know which lists you are subscribed to, you can simply go to your profile on the web, and click lists in the menu that shows on clicking your profile picture towards the right of your top bar. A page shows up wherein it shows tabs named “subscribed to” and “Member of”.
The steps to remove yourself from another person’s Twitter list are pretty simple:
- Go to the list you have been added to
- Visit the profile of the person who created the list
- Block them for a few seconds
- Unblock them (if you wish to)
The steps mentioned are easy to follow. This will lead to you both unfollowing each other. Also, it is worth noting that this will remove you from all lists of the person’s account. So if there is some list from the person you want to stay on, and some you don’t, you might request the person to remove you instead of blocking them.
Another thing worth noting is that if the person deleted their account after creating the list, you need to contact Twitter for assistance on the matter or wait for 90 days for the list to be removed (provided the person does not re-login in between).
How do i go to the profile? The only thing that happens when I tap the notice is going to the list there’s nothing there to tap to find the creator, I can’t find the profile through the search feature, too many carry the same name. No @ ID on it to use.
Just taking a random example of a list I am a part of, https://twitter.com/cloudboostio/lists/javascript-devs. The top left says “A public list by CloudBoost.io” where cloudboost.io is a URL to the creator’s profile
you didnt answer her question.
What part did I miss?
The part where you are supposed to read what they say.
Looks like it was answered to me. It clearly says at the top the name of the person who has made the list.
Thanks. Not sure why other people are not able to find it. It’s right there
For some of the lists I’m on, there is no creator. I suspect the creator got booted off Twitter or deleted their account. It’s mentioned in the article that you need to contact Twitter in that case. But I don’t know how to contact them. You can only report tweets.
You will have to contact them using this form: https://help.twitter.com/en/contact-us
WHY would you bother unblocking some fool that puts you on trashy lists? Once you block them the list mention on your profile goes away!
Varies from one person to another. Though usually one wouldn’t want to unblock them but you always have the option.
When someone puts me on one of those crazy lists, I do want to block them. But I’m not thinking about the other lists I’ve been put on, where it’s not mean-spirited. I suppose someone might just want to get off of a list that’s not trashy,
I hate keeping block lists—too many people online are very quick to block in order to protect their echo chambers. I don’t want to become one of them.
Good question. I wasn’t sure if blocking and unblocking actually made a difference, so I blocked, unblocked and blocked again. I’ll just block them from now on.
Someone added me to a dumb list and their account is missing. Problem is… this was over 1 year ago, I’m pretty sure 90 days have passed.
Either the person logs in between, or has blocked you or some other thing. I am not a twitter employee. Maybe support can help you with this.
When you navigate to the list you’ve been added to & wish to get off of, how do you find the person who created the list?
Have tried everything & cant find creator of lists I dont want to be on…
Is the profile inactive?
How can a profile be inactive and add me to their list at the same time? I was just added to someone’s list recently. If they’ve added me to their list, then I would think No, their profile isn’t inactive.
And you do not see a “A public list by ” section below the name of the list? For example, https://twitter.com/cloudboostio/lists/javascript-devs has a section on the top left as attached. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/68eec3d21f126c74d27cfa8639c4b4bcc83a4964d4512f2c1acb77440c358629.png
And the CloudBoost.io is a hyperlink to the profile of the creator of the list
thanks for the post its very helpful since I got added to about 900 lists on twitter over the past few months and now thanks to this post i can final clean them out
Welcome. So happy that you were able to remove your account from twitter lists and that we helped you do it!
I blocked the person but I’m still on a list.
Are you sure you blocked the right person? That did remove a lot of people from twitter lists as others have pointed out in comments here.
I think Twitter should add an option to accept being added to these lists. It’s wrong to automatically include people without their permission.
I totally agree with you. Twitter lists should have an option to enable asking for permission before simply being added to them. It would make life much more simpler than having to find out how to leave a twitter list
I just blocked a pos who added me to a very stupid list, waited a little bit, unblocked them and checked… it did not remove me, I am still in their idiotic list.
Did you check that you blocked the right person? This does work for everyone else here who has tried removing themselves from a twitter list.
I forgot about this. All’s fine now.
Happy to hear that you were able to work it out. Good riddance.
Blocking did not remove me from their list!
Are you sure you are blocking the right person? It has worked for tons of other people
how do you tell who created the list you are on?
I went to the list and there are 48 including me and I never signed up for it
They all but ignore me if I tweet something so what’s the point?
There is no way I can unsub either when I look at the list as there is in DM
The other people in the twitter list might have just been added like you. Below the name of the list, there will be a line saying “Public list by” and the link to the account that created it. Click on that account, block, unblock (if you want to).
Thank you!!
Welcome. Glad I could help you remove yourself from a twitter list
Why does Twitter approve this crap by default anyway? I don’t want to spend my afternoons playing whack-a-mole just because I made a one-liner about abortion once.
It was a feature intended to be used for curation of related topics I guess, but twitter lists have rarely been used for that purpose I think.
Useful post, but a bit discouraging to see that I needed this info in 2019. Seems like this is just how Twitter works. I don’t care if someone out there keeps a list of the cuckiest cucks who ever cucked, but I don’t want to know about it.
True. But I don’t think there is anything we can do about it other than using workarounds. Too many people get burnt by Twitter lists but they don’t seem to care at all.
Excellent how to. Thanks.
Thanks for commenting. Happy to know that the post was helpful!
This is a form of libel in my opinion.
It was very helpful.Thank you Saransh Kataria
Thank you for leaving a comment! Glad this post helped you remove from unwanted twitter lists
Lists are the tools of deranged Leftists to try to intimidate those that they cannot win an argument using reason against. Truly deranged types.
I was placed in a list and there is no way to get off. There is no avatar.
Cultist Trumptards
Morons, Racists, and Fucking Traitors
237 Members
did you try not being a trumptard and a traitor to begin with?
If by traitor you mean voting to bring our soldiers home from Iraq, Syria, and Afganinam then I am guilty. Let me guess, you voted for the slaughter of more innocent men, women, and children? Neither of us got what we wanted.
Exactly my problem.
Right – that’s why I’m here getting myself off an asinine list of “marxists” – now that I’m off the list, I can’t remember the full name, but it was offensive. I’m also on a list called “angry trannys” – clearly named to be obnoxious and offensive. Please watch with divisive generalizations. “Deranged leftists” sounds like one of the obnoxious list names. Don’t become just like the idiotic list makers.
Quite the opposite, it’s a common tool of the right wing element on twitter, of course I wouldn’t expect a right winger to be interested in the truth
Dopes on both sides of the political fence pestering people they disagree with. Just mute or block someone if you don’t want to hear what they have to say. Instead we’ve got adolescent BS. Good post, thanks.
Even I, a “deranged leftist,” got added to a deplorable list, and one of their MANY lists was “people asking to be removed from lists.” That list was huge. Any tool can use these tools, I’m afraid. I was suspicious of the listmaker (who would self-identify as deplorable? Madness), so I blocked them.
i clicked this one list that listed me and it mentioned that the site can’t be reach and the twitter server ip address couldn’t be found. do you know why?
i opened the other lists that i was listed on and remove myself, it’s working <3
Maybe a server error on twitter’s site at that moment. Retry?
i’ve reload and re-click a few times. same thing appeared