X (Twitter) follower history: how to see your follower count over time

Partly. X's analytics page is at x.com/i/account_analytics, and as of October 2026 it's reserved for paying X Premium subscribers. Which tier, we can't tell you, because X's own page about Premium doesn't mention analytics.

We found no X help page for this dashboard, so what we say about it comes from other people's guides. One of them, revised in September 2026, shows screenshots: the chart gives two numbers per day, how many accounts followed you and how many unfollowed you. None of the guides shows any names on it. For the names, see how to see who unfollowed you.

Two things about the chart aren't documented. One is how far back it goes: those screenshots show range buttons up to 1 year, and other articles still say 28 days. The other is whether it shows the days before you subscribed.

Older articles send you to analytics.twitter.com for a free 28-day summary. That address now leads to the same page.

Beyond what X's own chart shows, mostly no. X's API only returns the current follower count. The API's data dictionary lists nothing for a past date, so nobody can go back and fetch last year's number. When a tool shows you a line for the months before it started recording your account, you're looking at an estimate.

Your X archive won't give it to you either. It holds the list of accounts following you on the day it was made, with no dates and no earlier counts. Make two archives a few weeks apart and you can compare the lists, which is the manual way to find who unfollowed you.

The Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) saves copies of public profile pages, but not often for a small account. Look up both twitter.com/yourname and x.com/yourname there. In early October 2026 it had copies of our own profile from 20 days between November 2020 and March 2024, all under twitter.com/unfollowmonkey, and nothing since.

That leaves whatever you kept yourself. An old screenshot of your profile has the number on it. If you ever posted a milestone ("1,000 followers, thank you"), that post has a date, so searching your own posts for "followers" is worth a try.

There are three ways to record the number from now on.

• A spreadsheet. Open your profile once a week and type the number next to the date. After a year you have 52 points, enough for a follower growth graph. Above 10,000 followers X rounds the number on your profile (48.2K, for example), so a hand-kept log is only approximate at that size.
• X's own chart, if you already pay for X Premium. Look there first: if your tier includes it, it costs you nothing more.
• A tracker, which notes the number for you and also tells you who left. Before you connect one, read whether unfollow trackers are safe.

On your dashboard, the follower counts we save form one line under the title "Follower history", with the change since the first point on the chart.

Your first scan gives the first point, and each comparison of your full follower list adds one. The chart appears once there are six, so the wait depends on how often your plan makes that comparison.

On Free that's a long wait. If the trend is all you're after, the spreadsheet gets you a chart sooner.

Both Ultra plans look for unfollows every 5 minutes: we read your follower count, and when it has dropped we compare the full list straight away. Only the full comparisons add a point, so the 5-minute reads don't fill the chart.

We can't show your count from before your first scan. And our largest plan covers accounts under 80,000 followers, so for a bigger one X's own analytics is the place to look.

No. Each point on the line is your follower count at that moment, once new followers and lost ones have cancelled out. If it drops by 10, those can be 10 accounts that never decided to leave you. X says it removes locked accounts from follower counts.

The line can also stay flat while people leave. Say three people unfollow you between Monday's check and Tuesday's, and three new ones follow. Your count is the same at both checks, so the line doesn't move. The "Unfollowers" feed on the same dashboard names the three who left.

Among the accounts we track, more than half of lost followers hadn't unfollowed: their account had been deleted, deactivated or suspended. A deactivated account that comes back shows on the chart as a dip, then a recovery. Why follower counts drop has the figures, and the causes when the line falls by dozens in a day.

X shows you their count today and nothing earlier.

For a famous account the Wayback Machine is worth a look. Its copy of NASA's profile from 1 October 2026 shows "92.3M Followers", and it holds copies from 67 different days between January and October 2026. Some months are thin: two days in June, two in August.

That's how Fortune measured Twitter's removal of locked accounts in July 2018: Barack Obama's profile showed 104 million followers in the Wayback Machine's copy from 11 July and 101 million in the one from 13 July. Why follower counts drop has the rest of that story.

From today you can keep the record yourself: the count is on their profile, so noting it once a week works for their account as well as yours. Tools that track other accounts start counting on the day you add one.

We're no help here. We track the account you sign in with, and there's nowhere to type another username.