diff --git a/scrapy/http/response/text.py b/scrapy/http/response/text.py
index 33a485328..2f0f3820c 100644
--- a/scrapy/http/response/text.py
+++ b/scrapy/http/response/text.py
@@ -188,9 +188,11 @@ class TextResponse(Response):
         selectors from which links cannot be obtained (for instance, anchor tags without an
         ``href`` attribute)
         """
-        arg_count = len(list(filter(None, (urls, css, xpath))))
-        if arg_count != 1:
-            raise ValueError('Please supply exactly one of the following arguments: urls, css, xpath')
+        arguments = [x for x in (urls, css, xpath) if x is not None]
+        if len(arguments) != 1:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Please supply exactly one of the following arguments: urls, css, xpath"
+            )
         if not urls:
             if css:
                 urls = self.css(css)
diff --git a/tests/test_http_response.py b/tests/test_http_response.py
index be17dfd6b..eafc3560e 100644
--- a/tests/test_http_response.py
+++ b/tests/test_http_response.py
@@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ class BaseResponseTest(unittest.TestCase):
         links = map(Link, absolute)
         self._assert_followed_all_urls(links, absolute)
 
+    def test_follow_all_empty(self):
+        r = self.response_class("http://example.com")
+        self.assertEqual([], list(r.follow_all([])))
+
     def test_follow_all_invalid(self):
         r = self.response_class("http://example.com")
         if self.response_class == Response: