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I recently started using X (Twitter), and got annoyed with my daily new followers that were obviously bots.

I made a Chrome Extension to automate the bot follower removal: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...

I suspect these bots are being used to boost certain content controlled by their owners, so definitely not good to leave them alone.



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