Guide
How to see who unfollowed you on X (Twitter)
X tells you when someone follows you and never when they leave. Every method that answers
the question works the same way: save your follower list, save it again later, and compare.
The only difference is who does the saving.
By Lovlin Thakkar, who builds Muffle
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The four ways, side by side
| Method | Cost | Effort | Gives an app your account |
|---|
| Watch your count and scroll your list | Free | High | No |
| Compare two X data archives | Free | High | No |
| A website that connects to your account | Varies | Low | Yes |
| A browser extension that reads your own list | Varies | Low | No |
1. Watch the number
If your follower count is small, you can notice it drop and scroll your Followers list to
work out who is missing. It works up to a few hundred followers. Past that, nobody remembers
who used to be there.
The Follows you label on a profile answers a different question. Scrolling your
Following list for accounts without it shows who doesn't follow you back, not who left.
Muffle's follow-back list does that part for free.
2. Compare two data archives
In Settings, under Your account, you can download an archive of your data. It includes a
list of your followers. Download one today, another next week, and compare the two follower
files.
- It is free and needs no other app.
- The archive can take a day or more to arrive.
- Followers are listed as numeric account IDs, not names, so you have to look each one up.
3. A website that connects to your account
Unfollower websites ask you to sign in with X, then check your followers on their servers.
They are convenient, but you are handing a third party access to your account, and many
depend on X's paid API, which has shut several of them down since 2023. Read what access it
asks for before you approve it. Circleboom is the best known;
Muffle vs Circleboom covers how a hosted tool differs from an extension.
4. A browser extension that reads your own list
An extension can read your follower list the way your browser already loads it, while you
are signed in, so no app ever gets your password or a token. This is how
Muffle's unfollower tracker does it: scan once, scan again later, and the
second scan names everyone who left and everyone new. The comparison happens in your browser
and nothing is uploaded. That feature is part of the $19 a year licence.
What no method can tell you
- Who left before your first snapshot. Every method starts counting from
the first save.
- Why someone is missing. An account that was suspended, deactivated or
that blocked you disappears from your list the same way an unfollow does.
- Who left between two saves, and when. You learn they left in that
window, not the day.