Recently, Saint Xavier University's Department of Communication's Twitter has been getting a lot of followers. I check every one and follow a majority of them back (not those spam accounts or ones that look sketchy because they have zero tweets but a million followers).
I realized that the account was on two lists and I was proud! I checked one; it was good. I checked the other; not good. It wasn't an irrelevant or obscene list. It was a list of schools created by another school that tried to get transfer students.
Now, I immediately was shocked at how many schools (and well-known ones at that) were on the list and asked myself why they didn't remove themselves. Why risk the potential of losing students to this Twitter's school? That list shows up on your profile for everyone to see.
I googled how to remove an account from a Twitter list and it turns out that there is no simple one-click way. After looking at the settings, I guess there is no way to have an account get permission before adding to a list but maybe I'm missing something.
I did find a website, though, that tells you how to get off of the list, if only temporarily because you can always be added back. You simply block the user, then unblock them.
I hope in the future that Twitter does something to make list privacy better, especially since you don't have to follow someone to list them. If you don't keep up on what lists you're on, it could be potentially damaging to your image. If you don't realize that a porn account added you but your future boss does, that can raise questions.
Just make sure you view your profile often to see what exactly other people are seeing.
List removal website can be found here.
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