All Twitter users can now remove followers without having to block it. The company began testing this option last month, and starting today, everyone would have access to it. To secretly stop someone from seeing your tweet in their bait, open the follower tab on your profile, click the three-point menu next to the user referred to and select the option “Remove these followers”.
This is part of Twitter’s efforts to reduce harassment on the platform. Blocking someone you don’t want to follow, you can cause retaliation from that person through their allies or their secondary account after they find out. Cut them in this way and turn off them means they are nothing wiser that they come out of the circle.
This method will not prevent someone you boot from your list of followers from seeing your public tweet. Only blocking them or creating your personal account will do that. Elsewhere, Twitter is testing security mode, which automatically blocks accounts using “potentially dangerous languages.” It also sees more ways to filter and limit replies, so that the company seems to make anti-harassment efforts to be a greater priority.