This protected tweets feature isn’t working as well as I hoped. Gatekeeping new follows is a big chore and without an easy way to politely cut existing follows without the violence of a block or mute, there’s no way to clean up your follows. 
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Replying to @vgr
I believe you can block and then immediately unblock to force an unfollow.
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Replying to @kellydigges
Oooohhhh Though that’s a lot of work
5:49 PM - 16 Aug 2019
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