A Guide for 2025: How to Check Who Unfollowed You On Reddit

Losing followers but don't know why? Uncover who unfollowed you and learn what your audience really wants from your content.

Have you ever tried to see your follower counter drop and want to know who unfollowed you? Don't worry, you are not the only one. Reddit has gained ground as one of the top places to build communities and share content, with over 1.1 billion users each month. You didn't think followers matter? Well, you should.

Why it's important to track Reddit unfollowers

To watch your followers counts isn't out of vanity, it's about understanding your audience and fine-tuning your content strategy one of the most engaged platforms on the internet.

When a user unfollows you on Reddit, a signal is communicated. Potentially your content has taken a shift in direction. Maybe you're posting at the right frequency. Or perhaps you lured in bot accounts that Reddit ejected from the user accounts over time.

Here's a sample of what unfollowers can help discover:

• Content misalignment: If you typically post related tech tips and all of a sudden start dropping cooking posts, you might be in danger of losing some of your core followers.
• Posting frequency issues: If you post too much or too little, your audience size will diminish.
• Quality of audience: Sometimes a simple unfollow is just an inactive of the users being removed which helps your weighting.
• Engagement: See which content engaged people to stay and what it drove them off to.

Rather than just a negative experience, focusing on your unfollowers could provide some very valuable feedback.

Since the average Reddit user spends around 20 minutes per day on the platform, your content must mean something to them! Tracking unfollowers is a way to ensure your content continues to resonate.

The Manual Method: Checking Your Reddit Followers One Person at a Time

Reddit has now opened up follower information, a welcome upgrade from the anonymous world of yesteryear. Reddit still does not offer unfollower tracking, though.

The following outlines how to check if someone has unfollowed you manually:

1. Go to your Reddit page and click your follower count
2. Scroll through the followers list on this page to read every account that follows you
3. Open your browser's search bar (Ctrl+F or Cmd+F), and use that search function to look for specific usernames
4. If it doesn't show up, then they probably unfollowed you!

The Reality Check

This process only helps when you know or suspect someone specific is unfollowing you. But this approach has some substantial limitations. If your account has hundreds or even thousands of followers, keeping track will be virtually impossible.

You also have no history. There is no way to know when followed or to track any patterns. This is simply a snapshot of the current moment.

Manual Tracking Comparison:

Feature	Manual Check	Automated Solution
Cost	Free	Possible Subscription
Privacy	Totally Private	Requires Account Authorization
Time Required	High for Large Accounts	Minimal
Historical Data	None	Yes, historical and cumulative tracking
Scalability	Poor	Excellent

While the manual method is fine for personal use and small accounts (or to just check an unfollow), dedicated Redditors would want something more sophisticated and functional.

What Happens After You Follow Someone on Reddit?

Reddit has always kept follower information private, in opposition to many other platforms. But in 2021, Reddit owed it to users to provide some visibility and management over their own followers, to help elucidate the issue and alleviate some fears of someone stalking them.

Even with the disclosure and management features a user can see who they are following, Reddit still does not provide users with a notification that someone has unfollowed them. Nor does Reddit provide a log employed in other social media applications to show if and when someone has unfollowed them. Reddit does this on purpose, they are clearly trying to foster content creation and to not worry about following, or follower accounts. 

Redddit Pro, which is their free suite of tools for business, includes some basic analytic tools including total followers, upvotes, and engagement metrics. Reddit Pro, however, does not track if a specific user unfollowed you.

Advanced Tools to Analyze Reddit

Although Reddit does not offer integrated unfollower tracking, there are multiple analytic platforms that measure your presence on Reddit as a whole. These tools are focused on engagement, mentions, and your community's growth as opposed to unfollowers.

What a Professional Tool Can Provide:

Reddit Pro (Free)

• Measures total followers, reach, upvotes, and comments on your various content
• Observance of longer trends in your performance over time
• Identifies the topics that drive your engagement
• Shows follower change, although none of which will tell you who unfollowed you.

Third-Party Analytics Tools

• Advanced analysis tools like Brandwatch monitor mentions on Reddit while detecting sentiment and how engagement develops over time
• Use to monitor activity in your subreddits and your community (among others)
• Analyze the top topics that people paid attention to over time (making sure your audience is engaged)
• Measure all sorts of engagement which is broader than measuring followers

All of these methods transition from looking at individual unfollowers or metrics solely focused on you, to metrics that focus on community health. Given that Reddit has 108.1 million daily active users, a home for authentic engagement (as their goal suggests), it is more important to have engagement with quality content than a certain number of followers.

Export and Compare: The DIY Tracking Method

Have you ever thought about tracking people who unfollow you without relying on all of those third-party tools? With a little technical know-how, you can set up your own system by exporting lists and inputting them into spreadsheets.

Here's the step-by-step:

1. Periodically take a screenshot of your followers on Reddit, or we might have an option to export the list.
2. Save the list with a date in a spreadsheet.
3. Create a comparison formula to check the usernames that are not present any longer.
4. Easily track those patterns over the weeks and months.

This solution requires someone to be somewhat comfortable with technology, but the added bonus is that all the data is yours, you won't have to share your account credentials to another service, and you have complete control!

Downside? It may take you a long time and will need consistent effort in the tracking process. But for users who are privacy-conscious and may be running smaller communities, it should serve as a good option.

What Should You Do After Unfollowing Someone

You've found out who unfollowed you, but so what? How you respond depends on who they were or why they may have unfollowed.

Possible Strategic Responses:

Think About Content If you lost a prominent member of your community, or an industry peer, think back on your last couple of posts. Did you post different content? Did you go over board on promotional posts? use this opportunity to examine your content to improve it.

Forget About Unfollowers That Don't Matter The other 90% of unfollowers, don't matter. Inactive accounts, bots, and accounts that don't even follow your work to begin with isn't someone you shouldn't focus your time on. Instead try to focus on those who are engaged members of the community.

Improve Your Strategy

• Keep up good posting frequency and times
• Actively engage in subreddits that are relevant
• Post valuable, original content
• Engage in conversation other than promotional posts themselves

Reddit users don't want to engage with marketers, they want an authentic conversation. It doesn't matter how many followers you have, just focus on providing a real connection to the community.

Don't Just Follow There Users Back Again, don't just follow everyone who unfollowed you. That's playing into a vanity metric. Instead, follow accounts that are relevant to your own interests, and will likely follow you back because of that reason.

Key Tips for Growing a Reddit Presence

With approximately 3.4 million active subreddits, there are communities with active subscriptions in the millions. Ultimately, the key to success is engagement, not just amassing followers.

Consider these useful tactics:

• Engage in niche communities: Locate subreddits specific to your knowledge.
• Provide value: Respond to questions, offer great insights, and contribute thoughtful experiences.
• Follow subreddit rules: Each subreddit has its own rules and culture.
• Build trust over time: Reddit rewards authentic, consistent participation.

Research shows that Redditors average 21 billion screen views every month, which is impressive engagement for a site. Therefore, your content strategy should emphasize great conversations over meaningless metrics.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Reddit send me a notification whenever someone unfollows? No, Reddit does not have the feature to send unfollow notifications. This feature has intentionally not been built into the platform to lessen the obsession with metrics and instead promote authentic content creation.

Are third-party unfollowers trackers safe? Be careful. Any service or platform that requires your Reddit login credentials or information poses safety risks. Stick to the official Reddit analytics or use reputable platforms that have a solid privacy policy.

Why can't I see previous unfollowers? Reddit enabled the ability to see current followers not too long ago. Prior to that, there was no way to see followers that had been lost. Reddit does not keep any historical logs of followers that can be accessed by users.

Does follower count matter on Reddit? Much less than on other platforms. Reddit emphasizes upvotes, comments, and community engagement over follower count. The emphasis on participation quality is what matters.

Want to Boost Your Social Media Audience?

Knowing who unfollowed you is only part of establishing a thriving online community. As you build an audience on Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and beyond, knowing your audience will help achieve genuine growth.

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