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Check a public X profile without connecting your own X account.
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Check an X follower count
Paste any public X (Twitter) profile link and see the follower count and how many posts the account has published. Free with a Sourcevine account.
Public URLs only 1 credit a run Read time shown
1 credit per run, from your own balance. Sourcevine account required, no X login. No account? Get 100 free credits, once →
How it works
From URL to result
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Paste a public X profile URL
Handles and canonical profile URLs are accepted where the platform supports them.
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Read the audience count
The page returns the public follower or subscriber count and the supporting profile metrics.
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Check freshness
Every successful lookup includes the time Sourcevine read the public page.
Recorded example
What a real one looked like
recorded https://x.com/X
- Followers
- 60,737,966
- Following
- 1
- Posts
- 15,715
A real response from /v1/x/profile, kept so this page can
show something true without spending anyone’s credits. Run the tool
above for a live read of your own link.
Why Sourcevine
What to know about this lookup
Followers and following, both public
X publishes follower, following and post counts on a public profile, and a verified badge where the account carries one.
Timestamped answer
The result includes when the public page was read, so the number is easier to reconcile later.
Use cases
Where this lookup fits
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Comms and research teams
Size an account before quoting it, and keep the reading timestamped for a note that has to hold up later.
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Sales teams
Add a current public profile count to a lead or account record.
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Analysts
Separate public, private and unsupported links before a batch job.
Boundaries
What this tool will not return
- Public data only
Private accounts and restricted content are not accessed. Deleted resources return an availability status.
- No contact fields
Bios, emails, phone numbers, addresses and messenger handles are outside this product boundary.
- No lifetime like total
X publishes no profile-level like count, so that field is absent rather than zero. Likes are available per post.
- No identity matching
Sourcevine does not claim that profiles on different platforms belong to the same person.
Questions
Before you run it
Does it work with twitter.com links?
Yes. Old twitter.com links and x.com links both resolve to the same account.
Can I check a protected account?
No. A protected account is not public, so the tool says so rather than showing a number it cannot see.
What does this not show me?
Private or restricted content, bios and contact details are not returned. A platform may show a sign-in prompt for public content; the scope is public data, not whether the platform presents a login screen. If an account is private, the tool says so.
Do I need an account?
Yes, a free Sourcevine account; you never log in to the platform itself. Signing up gives you 100 credits once, no card, and they do not renew. A lookup spends one or two of them, and you can see every run in your dashboard. When they are gone, a prepaid pack tops the balance up and never expires.
API
Checking many X profiles?
Use the API when follower or subscriber counts need to land in a database, dashboard or spreadsheet.
/v1/x/profile
- Profile metrics by URL
- Private or deleted is a typed status
- No platform login required