X Unfollow Limit: How Many Accounts Per Day?

X does not publish a universal daily unfollow allowance in its current Help Center guidance. If you are asking how many people you can unfollow on X per day, there is no official number you can treat as permission to keep going until you reach it.

The numbers you will find online often describe different things: new follows, API requests, or a tool's own restrictions. Check which limit a number belongs to before planning a cleanup. A technical quota also says nothing about whether the pattern of activity follows X's rules.

The numbers that actually have a source

Here is the distinction, checked against X's current documentation on November 12, 2026:

Figure	What it describes	What it does not establish
400 a day	X's published limit for following new accounts	A daily unfollow allowance
5,000 following	The point where account-specific follow ratios apply	A limit on how many accounts you can unfollow
50 requests per 15 minutes	The documented per-user API limit for the unfollow endpoint	A recommended cleanup pace or daily entitlement
Up to 50 in a rolling 24 hours	Postory's own cap for one connected X account	An X-approved number that prevents restrictions

The first two figures come from X's following limits. They concern adding accounts to your following list. Our Twitter follow-limit guide covers that side of the relationship.

The API figure comes from X's rate-limit table, under Manage follows. It applies to the request an authorized app sends to unfollow a user. Multiplying that short-window quota across a day does not produce a permitted daily cleanup target.

Why a daily unfollow number is not a safety rule

X's automation rules prohibit following or unfollowing “in a bulk, aggressive, or indiscriminate manner.” The policy addresses what the activity does, as well as how an app performs it. API access does not exempt a tool from that rule.

A tool advertising a particular daily quota may be describing its own settings. A forum user's successful session describes what happened to that user. Neither establishes a universal allowance for your account. Be especially careful with advice that turns an old anecdote into a precise limit without linking to current X documentation.

Treat cleanup as a set of decisions about accounts you no longer want to follow. Repeatedly following people to gain their attention, then dropping them to inflate your follower count, is the follow-churn behavior X's guidance prohibits. Spacing those actions out does not change their purpose.

Choose the accounts before choosing a pace

Start with a small list you can explain: accounts posting spam, an old topic you no longer read, or profiles you do not recognize after checking them. Keep useful contacts even if they rarely post or do not follow you back. A quieter feed is a clearer goal than hitting a removal count.

For a few accounts, review and unfollow them manually on X. For a longer list, save the handles you may want to revisit, check your selection, and spread the work over days. Our guide to choosing accounts for mass unfollow on X at your pace explains the manual and connected-tool routes.

For example, reviewing 30 accounts and choosing to remove 12 gives you a concrete stopping point. It is a different task from trying to discover the largest number of unfollows X will accept. Stop when your reviewed selection is finished; there is no reason to use a remaining quota.

If X says it cannot unfollow an account

An unsuccessful action does not reveal your daily unfollow limit. Note the exact message and where it appears: the X app, the website, or a connected tool. Then stop repeated attempts while you work out the cause.

If X displays a lock, verification request, or account restriction, follow that notice first. If an app reports an API rate limit, its developer should respect the reset information X returns. The API documentation describes rate-limit responses as HTTP 429 errors; it does not promise that every failed unfollow has that cause.

For an apparent display or connection problem, check whether the account still appears in your Following list before trying again. Do not run a second tool to send the same selection while the first tool's result is unclear. There is no reliable basis for promising that every unfollow error clears after a fixed number of hours.

How Postory's 50-a-day cap works

We make Postory. In Following, you connect X, review the accounts, and tick the ones you want to unfollow. You can unfollow one account now or schedule your selected accounts at a pace from 1 to 50 a day. Postory never chooses removals on its own and never follows anyone.

The hard cap is shared by immediate and scheduled requests for the same X account across a rolling 24 hours. Starting another selection does not create another allowance. Scheduled requests run at random times, and you can change the pace or cancel the remaining queued accounts. A daily report lists the results through Telegram or email.

This is Postory's product limit, chosen to keep requests paced. It is not X's published daily unfollow quota, an endorsement, or a guarantee against restrictions. If X refuses an action, a lower tool setting is not proof that the account is clear to continue.

Each unfollow X accepts costs 3 credits, charged only on success. At 100 credits per dollar, 12 successful unfollows cost 36 credits, or $0.36; there is no subscription. Checking accounts for cleanup is a separate paid action. Review your selection and its cost before scheduling it.