How to see who doesn't follow you back on X (Twitter)

Open the account's profile on X: if it follows you, the profile shows a "Follows you" label (as of October 2026). If it doesn't, there's no label.

X's following FAQ describes your Following and Followers lists and mentions no filter, no sort and no way to compare the two. Of the three ways around that, the first two involve nobody but you and X.

• By hand: go down your Following list on X and look for "Follows you" on each account. If your list shows the label in its rows, scrolling does the job for a few hundred accounts. If it doesn't, you have to open each profile, and that only works for a handful.
• From your X data archive: it holds a list of your followers and a list of the accounts you follow, and X says preparing it can take a few days. The accounts in the second list that are missing from the first don't follow you back. The steps for requesting the archive and opening its follower file are in checking by hand with the X archive.
• With a tool: it reads both lists and compares them for you. Some are apps you sign in to with your X account, others are browser extensions or scripts that run in your logged-in X session.

Your UnfollowMonkey dashboard has a card titled "Not following back". Say you follow 640 accounts and 410 follow you back. The card lists up to 8 of the other 230, the ones with the most followers first, each with its name, @handle and follower count.

"See all 230" opens your Following list, filtered to the accounts that don't follow you. Each row shows an estimated date for when you followed the account, how many followers it has and how many accounts it follows. Another filter keeps only the accounts with "10K+ followers".

For mutuals, open the Followers list and set "You follow" to "Yes".

Getting the list takes three steps.

1. 1

   Click "Connect with X"

   You sign in on X's own page. We never see your password.

2. 2

   Follow @unfollowmonkey

   The Free plan, for accounts under 2,000 followers, asks for it: press "Follow @unfollowmonkey on X", follow us there, then come back. Bigger accounts choose a paid plan at this step.

3. 3

   Wait for the first scan

   The screen says "About a minute. You can close this page." For 2,000 followers or more, it says "A few minutes." instead. When it ends, the last screen gives the count ("230 people you follow don't follow you back" in our example) and the list is on your dashboard.

The list is a saved comparison, and we update it at every check, which is once a month on Free and every day on the paid Kong plan: someone you follow leaves it when they follow you back, and joins it when they unfollow you. We reread who you follow only every second check, though: about every two months on Free and every two days on Kong. So on Free, an account you followed in the last two months may not be on it yet, and one you unfollowed may still be. If you follow too many accounts for your plan, the card says "You follow more accounts than we can compare on this plan." And if your account is private, we can't scan it.

Only if they followed you before, and the list can't tell you whether they did. It holds the last comparison and nothing older. Someone who never followed you and someone who followed you for two years and left in the spring look the same on it.

Finding who left takes a different comparison: your follower list now against your follower list at the last check. We do that one too and DM you the accounts that are gone (see how to see who unfollowed you). It starts at your first scan, so anyone who left earlier stays on "Not following back" with nothing to mark them as a former follower.

Tools that do it exist, and X's rules are written against them. They forbid following or unfollowing in a bulk, aggressive or indiscriminate manner, and scripting the X website, which they say may lead to permanent suspension. How to mass unfollow without getting suspended goes through the rules, what X does to accounts that break them, and the slower way by hand.

Our dashboard has no unfollow button. Each row links to the account's profile on X, and you unfollow there yourself. We don't follow or unfollow anyone from your account.

In our data, mostly the accounts our users didn't follow back. Between 17 May and 3 October 2026 we recorded 4,146 unfollows where we knew whether our user followed the account that left: 66% came from accounts they didn't follow and 34% from mutuals. Most of the accounts we track have under 2,000 followers. More on who leaves in why people unfollow on X.

How often people follow back has always varied. In a crawl of 41.7 million Twitter profiles from July 2009, only 22.1% of the pairs of accounts linked by a follow followed each other; among Korean-speaking users in 2010, it was about 60%.