Grok Bot can find the dead accounts you still follow on X. Here's how to clean up your list without getting in trouble

What's trending: This weekend a lot of people asked their Grok Bot the same question: who am I still following that isn't actually there anymore? X's own trending summary describes users feeding their Bots thousands of follows and getting back lists of accounts that have been silent for months, plus handy links to go unfollow them. One X user, josephweb3, posted that his Bot "checked all the accounts i followed and verified which are no longer active," then "created a simple page for me" with the list. It's the digital version of finally cleaning out the fridge and finding a yogurt from 2019.

How it works: your Bot reads your X account through the X plugin, the connection you sign in to once in the Grok Bot app. With that, it can look at everyone you follow, check when each account last posted, and compare that against who follows you back. Then it sorts them into piles and builds you a Page, which is a little web page inside Grok Bot where you can scroll, filter, and click. The Bot does the boring checking. You do the deciding.

The play: split your list into three piles instead of one big purge. Josephweb3's prompt uses a simple rule: "Dead" means no posts in 180+ days (or zero posts) and not following you back, so those go on the unfollow list. "Quiet Mutuals" are just as silent but still follow you, so they get a review list instead, because that might be your aunt who reads everything and never posts. Everyone else is "Active." It's also handy beyond cleanup: ask for the accounts you follow that post the most, or the ones you followed years ago and never see anymore.

How to run it: first, make sure X is connected under Plugins in the Grok Bot app. Then paste something like the prompt josephweb3 shared: "Using my connected X account, check every account I follow and compare it against my followers list. Classify every account I follow: Dead (no posts in 180+ days or 0 public posts AND not following me back), Quiet Mutuals (same, but still following me back), and Active. Build me an interactive Page with summary numbers, a click-through unfollow list of the dead accounts with direct links to each profile, filters by how long they've been quiet, a separate Quiet Mutuals review list, and a searchable table of everyone I follow." If you follow a few thousand accounts, give it some time. When the Page is ready, open the unfollow list and work through it in small batches.

Watch out for: don't ask your Bot to mass-unfollow for you. When one person complained that their Bot refused, Grok replied on X that X's rules prohibit "bulk, aggressive, or automated unfollows," and that Grok Bot "can list inactive follows for review or handle paced ones with your explicit approval." Tapping unfollow yourself from the list is the safe route, and some people reported using outside scripts instead, which Grok said carry the same risks. Also, "quiet" isn't the same as "gone": some people read without posting, and an old account might wake up next week. A candid note from us: Desk Signal is made with help from bots, and our own X account got suspended this month, so we take X's automation rules seriously.