Three steps, about ten seconds, no X account needed.
Any public @username, or paste a profile link. Your own account or someone else's.
Followers returns the 20 newest accounts that followed the profile. Following returns the 20 it followed most recently.
Live data loads in seconds, newest first, each row linking straight to the profile on X.
Most follower trackers make you connect your X account, wait days for data to build, or pay before a single name appears. This one starts at the newest end of the list and returns real profiles the moment you search, with enough detail to judge them at a glance.
Run it on your own account to catch new followers that the Notifications tab buries under likes and replies, or on a competitor, creator, or lead to see who is paying attention to them right now. New followers reveal intent, momentum, and audience quality long before a raw follower count catches up.
X shows no follow dates and no way to sort a following list, so confirming what someone followed most recently means scrolling and guessing. The Following tab lists the 20 accounts a profile started following most recently, newest first, with no X login. Following is deliberate, which makes it one of the few public signals of where attention is moving.
Spot the new partners, tools, or hires a competitor just started following.
See the projects an account began watching, often early.
Understand who someone is paying attention to right now, not months ago.
For a full following list, not just the latest 20, use the following endpoint or the Playground export below. To check whether one specific account follows another, use the Follow Checker.
Free options usually fall into two traps. Live follower count checkers show a number with no people behind it, and follower tracking apps make you connect an account, wait for data to build, and often pay before you see results. This tool shows the actual recent followers and following of any public account, anonymously, right away.
| Capability | This tool (Sorsa) | Live follower count checkers | Follower tracking apps (sign-up) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shows actual follower profiles | Yes: name, bio, stats, link | No, a number only | Yes, after account setup |
| Works on any public account right now | Yes, instant snapshot | Count only | No, data builds over time |
| Shows recent following too | Yes, Following tab | No | Sometimes |
| X login or OAuth | None | None | Required |
| Cost | Free for the newest 20 | Free | Limited free, mostly paid |
| Full list export | Via Playground or API | No | Paid plans |
X shows followers and following, but it was never built to analyze them.
X only shows followers and following lists to logged-in users. This tool needs no X account and never touches yours.
X shows no follow dates and offers no sort or filter controls, so you cannot confirm what is actually newest or jump to a specific period.
X shows a name and avatar. Bio, follower count, and verification take a click each, and there is no export.
Your own Notifications tab keeps only about the last 50 follow events, mixed with likes and replies, so older follows disappear quickly.
This tool fills those gaps with an instant, structured snapshot you can read at a glance.
Follower count alone is a vanity metric. The signal is in who is joining. If the last 20 followers have empty bios, default avatars, and no followers of their own, that is usually a bot wave or bought engagement, not real reach.
Complete bios, varied follower counts, recent activity, and some verified accounts among the newest 20.
Empty bios, near-zero followers, default avatars, and accounts created in bulk. Check creation dates with the Account Age Checker.
To audit fake followers across an entire account, not just the latest 20, see the guide to auditing fake followers. Use the User Comparison tool to benchmark these signals against a competitor.
Not from a live profile. X never records when a follow happened, so no tool can rebuild follower history from a cold start.
That rules out true follower count charts and unfollower lists built after the fact. What this page gives you instead is an accurate live snapshot: the 20 most recent followers, or the 20 accounts most recently followed, as they stand right now. History is something you start collecting, not something you can look up.
Pull the followers endpoint on a schedule, daily or hourly.
Diff each snapshot against the previous one.
New rows are new followers, missing rows are unfollows.
The series you collect becomes your own follower history. The Twitter Followers API guide walks through pulling and paginating full lists.
The free tool shows the newest 20. To pull an entire audience, yours or someone else's, scale up two ways.
Call the followers and following endpoints directly: up to 200 profiles per request with full bios, from about $0.01 per 1,000 follower profiles. The step-by-step guide on how to extract Twitter followers covers pagination and export.
Use the Sorsa Playground, a no-code workspace, to export full follower and following lists to CSV or JSON. Your first 100 requests are free, then you pay only for the requests you run.
This tool runs on the Sorsa API, a read-only X data API with 40 endpoints, a flat 20 requests per second on every plan, and per-request pricing that is up to 50x cheaper than the official X API on read-heavy workloads. Manual checks here stay free. When you need full lists, scheduled snapshots, unfollower diffs, or new-follower alerts, the same endpoints scale to millions of profiles on flat per-request pricing.
| Official X API | Sorsa API | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | OAuth 2.0 plus Bearer token | Single API key in a header |
| Pricing model | Per resource fetched | Flat per request |
| Followers per request | Billed for each profile | Up to 200 profiles in one request |
| Getting started | Developer account approval | Instant key, no approval queue |
Enter the @username, switch the toggle to Following, and run the check. You get the 20 accounts that profile most recently started following, newest first, each with a direct link to the profile on X.
Yes. There is no X login, no OAuth, and no password. Enter any public username and the newest followers appear instantly.
Yes, it is anonymous. There is no login and no OAuth, the account you check is never notified, and nothing is posted from your side. Checking does not affect your own X account or its metrics.
Yes. Manual checks of the 20 most recent followers or following are free with no login. Full lists and automation run on the API and Playground, which start with 100 free requests: no card, no expiry. After that you only pay for the requests you run.
The free tool shows the newest 20. For the full list, use the Sorsa Playground (no code, export to CSV or JSON) or call the followers and following endpoints, which return up to 200 profiles per request.
No. Protected accounts hide their follower and following lists, so this data cannot be retrieved for them.
The tool pulls live data from X and lists the newest followers or following first. X does not timestamp follows, so you see the current order in a live snapshot, not exact follow dates.
Not from a single snapshot. X does not attach a timestamp to follows, so unfollower lists and follower history cannot be rebuilt after the fact. To track changes, query the followers endpoint on a schedule and compare the results over time.
Yes. Enter your own @username to see your 20 most recent followers without scrolling the Notifications tab, which mixes follows with likes and replies and only keeps the latest few.
A count checker shows only a number. This tool shows the actual recent follower profiles, with name, bio, follower counts, verification status, and a direct link.
A recent followers tracker and following list viewer in one. Enter any public @username to see its 20 newest followers with real profiles, not just a number: name, bio, follower count, and verification status. Switch to Following to see who that account recently followed, newest first. No X login, no OAuth, and the account is never notified that you looked.