How to see who unfollowed you on X (Twitter), and what X won't show

Not on X itself. It announces new followers in your notifications. About unfollows, its Help Center says: "X does not send a notification when you unfollow someone." What you do get is the Followers list on your profile, and it only shows who follows you today.

The count alone can't tell you. Say you had 1,204 followers on Monday and 1,201 on Friday: that can be three people leaving, or seven leaving and four arriving. Four things do give you names.

Researchers hit the same wall. When a KAIST team studied unfollows on Twitter in 2010, they wrote that Twitter offers no record of them, so they compared daily snapshots of who followed whom, which is what a tracker does for you. Over 51 days, 30% of the Korean-speaking users they watched unfollowed someone at least once.

Open their profile and look for the "Follows you" label. If X shows it, they still do.

No label means they don't follow you today. It won't say when they stopped, or whether they ever followed you, and nobody is going to open 800 profiles this way.

If the profile says they blocked you, the follow is gone as well, because on X a block ends it in both directions (see how to tell a block from an unfollow). If you can't open the profile at all, the account may have been deactivated, since X hides a deactivated profile.

Open your profile, tap Followers, and copy the @handles into a note or a spreadsheet. Do it again a week later. Any @handle in the first copy that's missing from the second has left your list. That's fine with 150 followers and hopeless with 5,000.

Before you start, turn off the quality filter in your notification settings. X's help says your followers list can otherwise hide accounts it suspects of spam, and a hidden name looks like a missing one.

The slower route is your X archive, which includes a list of your followers. X says preparing it can take a few days, and you need two archives from different dates. X's help page doesn't say what that list looks like, but the README file X puts inside the archive does: each follower is an account ID, a number, and a link, with no @handle. Archives made in 2026 still look like that, so you have to look up every missing account. How to export your followers list compares the archive with the other ways.

We wrote up the by-hand method in full, step by step, including what X's rules say about the scripts and extensions that do the copying for you.

We've been tracking unfollowers since 2013. UnfollowMonkey makes that comparison for you, on a schedule, and we've put it next to the other trackers that still work.

1. 1

   Click "Connect with X"

   It's the button on our home page. You sign in on X's own page, so we never see your password, and we never post as you.

2. 2

   Follow @unfollowmonkey

   X may refuse our DMs unless you follow us, and the Free plan requires it. Accounts too big for Free choose a paid plan here.

3. 3

   Let the first scan run

   The screen says "Saving your follower list…". It takes about a minute, a few minutes for a big account, and you can close the page.

At each check after that, we compare your followers with the saved list. When an account is gone, we look it up and DM you its @handle and what happened: it unfollowed you, got suspended, or deleted its account. The DM also says about how long they'd followed you, which comes from our estimate of when the follow started. The dashboard keeps every alert.

UnfollowMonkey

@your_ex unfollowed you 🙈 💔

They followed you for about 3 years.

@moon_signals_88 got suspended 😱

How soon you hear depends on the plan. Free is for accounts under 2,000 followers and checks once a month, the first time 5 days after the first scan. Of the paid plans, Kong checks every day and Ultra every 5 minutes, so on Ultra you usually know within minutes.

We find an unfollow at the next check, so on Free the DM can reach you up to a month after the person left. And someone who follows you and leaves again between two checks is never reported.

Before you connect any tracker, ours included, read what X's sign-in page says the app will be able to do. What to check before you connect a tracker has the details.

X's own page on follower counts gives three explanations for a follower who has gone missing: the account was hidden for spam activity, it unfollowed you, or it was deactivated.

Of the more than 9,000 follower losses we recorded between May and October 2026, 47% were unfollows. The other 53% were accounts that had been deleted or deactivated (30%) or suspended (23%). Those are the accounts we track, mostly under 2,000 followers, so we can't speak for all of X.

Some of those accounts come back. X keeps a deactivated account for 30 days, and logging in during that time restores it. About a third of the followers we recorded as deleted came back later.

If your count fell by dozens at once, see why follower counts drop.

No. X only shows who follows you today, so every method here starts from the first copy you make. Our first scan saves your list and reports nobody, and your dashboard says "We saved who follows you. The first check will show who unfollowed you."

Two things get you part of the way. The profile check works on anyone, however long ago they left. And an old X archive, or X's emails about new followers if you get them, show who was following you at the time. Anyone in there who's missing from your followers today has left since.