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I don't quite understand the point of this. What's the benefit? Isn't this the exact same thing as going through my Followers list on Twitter and looking at which ones don't have the blue "Following" button next to them (which would give me the more interesting metric, people whom follow me but I don't follow)?

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Apologies - I do need to do the reverse but most people follow more people than follow them. And yeah it is the exact same thing as that, but you can search it and monitor who's unfollowed you since you last saved your list. You can also track/check other people so it's more useful than just looking for the blue following button - which I often find buggy

Does it have to have a point? Some of life's most wonderful things are completely pointless.

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