How to Block Everyone Who Reposted (Retweeted) a Tweet on X
A tweet goes viral for the wrong reasons — a spam wave, a harassment mob, a bot network amplifying it — and suddenly hundreds of accounts have reposted it. Blocking them through X’s own interface is slow: every block means opening the profile, finding the menu, and confirming a dialog. For ten accounts that’s a minute of pointless clicking.
This guide covers the manual route, which is the faster one up to a few dozen accounts: one click per reposter, right on the reposts page, without opening a single profile. If you’re looking at hundreds, there’s a batch workflow that exports the list and blocks it in the background — jump to that instead.
Where the reposters are#
Click the repost counter under any tweet, or open https://x.com/<user>/status/<tweet-id>/retweets. X shows a page titled Users who reposted this post.
Both the manual route and the batch route start from this page — you never need to visit an individual profile.
Block them one click at a time#
Twitter Blocker adds a block button next to every user on the reposts page. One click blocks that account:
- No profile visit, no menu, no confirmation dialog
- Blocking removes the row, so the next account moves up under your cursor — keep clicking in the same spot, no aiming and no scrolling
- A toast appears in the corner with a 3-second Undo — click it and the block is cancelled before it’s ever sent
That makes it mechanical rather than deliberate: the demo above clears nine reposters in about five seconds, and nothing beyond one extension to install.
The same button shows up wherever X renders a list of users: followers, following, verified followers, and the People tab of search results.
When to stop clicking#
Quick Block sends a block request per click, so a few things are worth knowing before you settle in:
- Rate limits still apply. X allows roughly 500 blocks per day. Clicking your way through doesn’t raise that ceiling.
- Quick Block doesn’t retry. If a block fails — rate limit, network hiccup — the button resets and the row comes back. If rows keep reappearing, stop clicking and switch to the batch workflow: it pauses and resumes on its own.
- None of this is behind a paywall. Quick Block isn’t part of the batch import quota, so even the free plan blocks as many accounts as you’re willing to click through.
As a rule of thumb: if a couple of scrolls gets you to the end of the list, click. If you’d be scrolling for minutes, export it instead.
Facing hundreds of reposters?#
For long lists, export the reposters and let Twitter Blocker work through them in the background — a few minutes of setup, then it runs without you.
That workflow is documented in How to Block All Members of a Twitter/X Community, and the mechanic is identical: export the list with Twitter Exporter using Download Retweeters, review the CSV, then import it into Twitter Blocker. If the pile-up is in quote tweets rather than plain reposts, export Download Quoted Tweets instead — the rest of the flow is the same. That post also covers the rule-based approach for spam waves that keep coming back.
Don’t have the extension yet? Install Twitter Blocker from the extension page.