Bennett's Block Party

Inspired by, and with collaboration from, Christopher L. Jorgensen, @JackassLetters

This form activates a script that can block all of the designated Twitter user's followers from following you. You may need to close all other Twitter applications on this computer for the script to work properly.

Your username: @ Your Twitter password: (The script doesn't store your password anywhere. It uses it and then forgets. I've got a successful criminal defense law practice, and I'm not interested in your password.

Person whose followers you want to affect: @ (That person will be blocked.)

Within that person's list of followers, we will be dealing with three classes of people: those whom you follow, those who follow you, and those whom you have no connection with.

Those whom you follow (your "friends"), you can choose to leave unaffected (default), to unfollow, or to block and leave blocked.

Leave my "friends" unaffected.
Unfollow my "friends."
Block my "friends."

Those who follow you, you can choose to leave unaffected, to block and unblock (forcing them to unfollow you -- default setting), or to block and leave blocked.

Leave my followers unaffected.
Force my followers to unfollow me.
Block my followers.

Some of spammer's followers might be both "friends" and followers of yours; would you like to handle them as "friends" or as followers?

Treat as friends
Treat as followers

Those whom you have no connection with, you can choose to leave unaffected (default setting), or to block and leave blocked (very time consuming). "Block and unblock" is not an option because it will have no effect on them.

Leave those who are unconnected to me unaffected.
Block those who are unconnected to me.

Post an update announcing that you are using BlockParty (optional). This will be sent out before the blocking begins, so that your followers will get it. It will say, "I am using #BlockParty to clear out @[spammer]'s followers. If you don't hear from me after this, you know why.":

Before you click "Block them!", reflect for a moment and double-check your work.

You can always go back and unblock someone, but if you've erroneously blocked 5,000 people, it'll be a hassle for you to fix. If you block someone you didn't mean to, don't come crying to me.

If, after clicking "Block them!", you get an error, it's probably because this interface has been used too much recently and has bumped up against Twitter's rate limiter. Try again later.