Last updated October 1, 2026
Short answer:no. X doesn't show who viewed your profile or your posts, and no third-party app can, because X doesn't share that information with anyone. What you can see are totals: the public view count on each post, and in your analytics, how many impressions and profile visits a post got.
This page explains what each of those numbers means, where to find them, and why “who viewed my profile” apps are a bad idea.
Everything X shows about views is a count. Names appear only when someone takes an action, such as following you or liking a post.
| What you see | What it tells you | Where | Who can see it |
|---|---|---|---|
| View count on a post | How many times the post was seen | Next to the analytics icon on every post | Everyone |
| Post impressions | How often the post appeared on screens | Analytics icon on your own post | You |
| Profile visits | How many times people opened your profile from that post | Analytics icon on your own post | You |
| Account analytics | Impressions, engagement, profile visits and follower trends over time | Analytics dashboard | You, with X Premium |
| Notifications | Who followed, liked, reposted, replied, quoted or mentioned you | Notifications tab | You |
| Who viewed your profile | Not available | Nowhere | Nobody |
Viewsare the public number on a post. X counts a view every time someone logged in sees the post, wherever they see it: Home, search, a profile, or a reply thread. Views aren't unique. One person looking on their phone and then on the web counts as two, and your own views count too. Posts embedded on other websites don't add views, and some posts, such as very old ones and Community posts, have no view count at all.
Impressions are the analytics version of the same idea: how many times your post was shown. You see them only on your own posts.
Profile visitsare how many times people clicked through to your profile. In post analytics they show how many visits one post produced. In the account dashboard they add up over days or weeks. It's the closest thing X has to profile views, and it's still only a number.
To understand why a post reached more or fewer people, run it through our free X algorithm checker.
No. You can open any public profile and read its posts without the owner knowing. Viewing sends no notification, and your view only adds anonymously to post view counts. The things that do reveal you are actions:
Bookmarks are anonymous: a post shows how many times it was bookmarked, but not by whom. Likes are private to everyone except the post's author, who can still see who liked their own post. If you want to look at posts without being logged in at all, our free Twitter viewer shows any public profile and its latest posts without an account.
No. Premium gives you more analytics, not names. The account dashboard shows how many profile visits you got over time, along with impressions, engagement and follower changes, but it never lists the people behind those numbers. A blue checkmark changes what you can measure, not who you can see.
This is a deliberate privacy choice, and it works both ways. Because nobody can see their profile visitors, you can look at any public account without the owner finding out. If X ever added profile visitors, it would be a major, widely announced change, not a hidden setting or a feature unlocked by an outside app.
No. X doesn't give profile-view data to anyone, and the official X API has no way to ask for it. So an app that claims to list your profile visitors is either guessing, usually by listing people who recently liked or followed, or making the list up.
The real risk is what these apps ask for in return:
If you've already connected one, remove it in Settings and privacy → Security and account access → Apps and sessions → Connected apps. If you entered your password anywhere, change it and turn on two-factor authentication.
You can't see silent visitors, but you can see everyone who engages with you or talks about you. These searches work in the X search bar (use the Latest tab):
| To find | Search |
|---|---|
| Replies to you | to:yourhandle |
| Posts that mention you | @yourhandle -from:yourhandle |
| Posts linking to your site | url:yourdomain.com |
| Mentions in a date range | @yourhandle since:2026-09-01 until:2026-10-01 |
Our Twitter advanced search tool builds these for you, and the guide to searching tweets by date explains every operator.
Profile visits follow reach. When fewer people see your posts, fewer of them click through to your profile. Common causes are posting less often, a change in what you post, or posts that get little early engagement. A sudden drop with no change on your side can mean reduced visibility. Check it in seconds with the free shadowban checker, which tests for a search ban, a search suggestion ban and hidden replies.
If you track a brand or a big account, you can pull everyone who talks to it on a schedule. The twitr.sh x_search tool takes the same operators, with no X account or API key:
curl -X POST https://twitr.sh/api/tools/x_search \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"q":"to:nasa since:2026-09-01 until:2026-10-01","queryType":"Latest","resultsLimit":20}'
# → HTTP 402 Payment Required with the exact price
# ($0.0012 per returned tweet, so about $0.024 for 20)
# → pay with any x402 or MPP wallet and send the same request again
# → 200 with the postsIt can't list profile visitors, because X doesn't provide them to anyone. Agents in Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client can call it as the x_search tool. To list an account's followers, use x_timeline. See all tools and pricing.
No. X doesn't show who viewed your profile or your posts, to you or to anyone else. You can see totals, such as how many times a post was viewed and how many profile visits a post led to, but never the names behind them.
No. Looking at a profile or reading posts sends no notification. People are only notified about actions such as follows, likes, reposts, replies, quotes and mentions.
Not individually. If you're logged in, your view adds one to the post's public view count, but the count is anonymous. Nobody can see that the view came from you.
Profile visits is an analytics number showing how many times people opened your profile, for example from one of your posts. It's a count only. X doesn't list who those visitors were.
Open one of your own posts and tap the analytics (bar chart) icon to see its activity, including profile visits from that post. The full account analytics dashboard, with profile visits over time, is part of X Premium.
No. X doesn't make profile-view data available to anyone, including through its API, so these apps can't know who viewed you. At best they guess from likes and follows. At worst they're built to take over your account or spam your followers.
Revoke it in Settings and privacy → Security and account access → Apps and sessions → Connected apps. If you typed your password into the app or its website, change your X password and turn on two-factor authentication.
Anyone logged in to X who sees the post, wherever they see it, including you. Views are not unique: the same person viewing on phone and web counts twice. Embedded posts on other websites don't add views.
Yes. Likes on X have been private since 2024: other people can't see who liked a post, but the author can still see who liked their own posts.
In a Space, people can see who is listening. If you turn on read receipts in Direct Messages, the sender can see that you read their message. Ordinary profile and post views are never shown.
Usually because your posts reached fewer people, which means fewer profile visits. Posting less, a change in topic, or reduced reach can all cause it. Check for a search ban with the free twitr.sh shadowban checker.