5-step guide to losing a follower

STEP ONE

Notice that someone that you follow but have never met (who also follows you, and with whom you have an interest in common) has retweeted a really dismal and fairly mean-spirited 'joke'... something like this, for example:

STEP TWO

Comment on the joke. Be sure to use a Latin term when picking apart the rhetorical device around which the joke is built. This is a very effective way of sounding like a smart arse. 

STEP THREE

Imply that your interlocutor draws his or her ideas from a narrow selection of narrow-minded sources. 

STEP FOUR

Move from implication mode to something more like attack mode.

STEP FIVE

You're blocked!