Does X (Twitter) notify when you unfollow, or someone unfollows you?

Yes, if they look. X shows a "Follows you" label on your profile for as long as you follow the person looking at it. After the unfollow it's gone when they open your profile, and you're no longer in their followers list.

The other way is an unfollow tracker, and that's what we make. If the person has connected their account to UnfollowMonkey, they get a DM from @unfollowmonkey that names you, and you're on their dashboard too.

UnfollowMonkey

@your_ex unfollowed you 🙈 💔

They followed you for about 3 years.

@moon_signals_88 got suspended 😱

That DM doesn't go out the moment you press the button. We compare their follower list with the one we saved at the previous check, so they find out at their next check.

That check comes once a month on our Free plan, every day on the paid Kong plan and every 5 minutes on the Ultra plan, so on Ultra they usually know within minutes.

Say you unfollow someone on 3 March. If they're on Free and their checks fall on the 1st of the month, our DM goes out on 1 April, 29 days after you unfollowed.

Their posts leave your Following timeline. X's confirmation says they leave your For You timeline too, though For You also shows posts from accounts you don't follow, so one of theirs can still turn up there. You can still open their profile and read it, unless their posts are protected.

If they follow you, they still do. Following on X is one-way, so your unfollow doesn't undo theirs.

Your DM conversation stays open too. As of October 2026, X's help page on Direct Messages says someone you already have a conversation with can keep messaging you unless you block or report them.

No. X tells you about new followers three ways:

• In your notifications.
• In an email digest, unless you've switched that off.
• As a push notification, if you've turned on "New followers".

Its list of push notification types has no entry for an unfollow. So when a follower goes, X gives you a smaller follower count and no name.

Guides published in 2026 say X's analytics page charts how many accounts followed and unfollowed you each day, still without names, and that it needs a paid X Premium subscription. We describe it in how to see your follower count over time.

In our data the missing follower is more often a deleted or suspended account than someone who unfollowed. Why follower counts drop has the figures and goes through each cause.

If it's one person you're wondering about, you don't need a tracker: open their profile and look for "Follows you".

To check everyone at once, we save your follower list and compare it with a later one. When a check finds accounts gone, we DM you who they are and what happened to each: "unfollowed you", "got suspended" or "deleted their account".

One DM lists up to six accounts, and the dashboard has the rest. When nobody's gone, there's no DM to say so. We can only tell you about unfollows from after you connect. The other methods are in how to see who unfollowed you.

Unfollowing is one of five things you can do about an account you've had enough of. Here's what each one tells the other person, as of October 2026.

Only the mute stays hidden. X's page on mute says muted accounts won't know, and they can still DM you. No tracker can report a mute, ours included, because X's developer documentation says an app can't subscribe to notifications about someone being muted.

Soft block is the name people give to blocking someone and unblocking them straight away, which leaves them no longer following you.

To us, a block or a soft block looks like an unfollow: if you followed them, you drop out of their follower list and they get "unfollowed you". We send nothing when you remove them as a follower, because their own follower list hasn't changed.

What X tells people when you block, mute or remove them goes through each of these, and reports, DMs and screenshots too. How to know if someone blocked you covers what X shows the other side.

Once, by accident. For at least ten days in June 2019, some people got a push notification when an account unfollowed them, worded as if that account had just followed them. Twitter said it was a bug, and the fix was confirmed before the end of that month.