How to remove your account from someone else's Twitter list

Twitter lists can be a great resource:they can help you rank different businesses, follow what's happening with your friends or family, follow accounts you like, or follow news sources you like to follow. And being on other people's Twitter lists can help amplify your own tweets.

However, occasionally, you might find yourself on a Twitter list that you'd rather not be associated with. Maybe someone misread one of your tweets and thought you agreed with a certain point of view – and you didn't. Or it may happen that someone who disagrees with you puts you on a list to target you for harassment.

Reporter Therese W. Carey suggested it's a good idea to check your Twitter account regularly to make sure you're not on lists you'd rather not be on.

As Carey explains, this is how it is possible to check which lists you are on. (These instructions are for the web version of Twitter.)

• Click the "Lists" icon to the left of your feed
• You are now on the Lists page, where you will find all your lists. Click the three dots in the top right corner, then click "Lists you're on".

Now you can see which lists you are on; the most recent should be at the top.

If you find you're on a list you'd rather not be on, you can get off that list by blocking (temporarily or permanently) the person who created the list. Here's how.

• Use the method above to find the list you don't want to be on. Select the list creator's account name.
• You will now be on that person's profile page. Click on the three dots to the right of their image, select "Block " and confirm.

• You will now block this account and you will have removed your name from all lists created using this account
• If you don't actually want to permanently block this person, then you can immediately click "Unblock" (which you'll see if you hover your cursor over the button that says "Blocked")

Of course, if you haven't permanently blocked that account, they can always put you back on their list – or you can appear on someone else's. So it's a good idea to check in every now and then and see which lists your Twitter account is on.