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Can You See Who Viewed Your Twitter Profile? (2026)

No app or X Premium plan shows who viewed your Twitter profile. See what X counts instead, what viewer apps can reach, and how to revoke one you let in.


Published · Updated · 6 min read

Cover image: Views, yes. Viewers, no.

No, you can't see who viewed your Twitter profile: X shows how many times a post was viewed, never who viewed it.

This is for anyone on X (Twitter) wondering who's been looking. You get what X's own pages say, what the numbers do show, and how to cut off an app that promised you a list of viewers.

Open this while logged in to see every app that can use your account:

https://x.com/settings/applications

Can you see who viewed your Twitter profile?

No. X offers no list of profile visitors, and its help pages on views describe totals only.

"View counts show the total number of times a post has been viewed," X's Help Center says. Its rules for that number:

  • Anyone can see it, author or reader.
  • Every logged-in view counts, wherever it happens, even from people who don't follow the author.
  • Views aren't unique. One person on web and then on a phone counts twice.

Here's what a view count looks like as data. We fetched NASA's "Hello, Moon" post through Weir, the API we run, on 22 October 2026:

30,495,200views on one @NASA post
794,766likes on the same post
0fields that say who viewed it

The response held counts for views, likes, reposts, replies, quotes and bookmarks. None of them names a viewer.

What X shows instead of your Twitter profile visitors

People who act on a post leave a name. People who only look don't.

Here is who can see what, as X's help and developer pages describe it:

What Who sees it Names?
Post view count Anyone No
Reposts of a post Anyone Latest 100
Replies to a post Anyone Yes
Profile clicks The author No
Profile visitors Nobody No

So replies and reposts tell you who engaged, and the view count tells you how many looked.

X's repost help says it shows "up to the most recent 100 people who reposted any public post." Our guide on who retweeted a tweet shows how to read that list.

Profile clicks are the closest thing to profile visits. X's post dashboard counts "user profile clicks": clicks on your name, handle or photo from one of your posts.

X's API docs list that number as private. Only the author can pull it, and only for posts from the last 30 days.

Does X Premium show who viewed your profile?

No. X's Help Center page on Premium, as of October 2026, describes features from editing posts to Media Studio. Profile visitors aren't among them.

X Analytics doesn't either. X's business help calls it "a free service available to all X users" with an ads account or a sign-up at analytics.x.com.

Its post dashboard reports numbers like these, all totals:

  • Impressions, the times a post was served.
  • Engagements, every interaction with the post, from likes to clicks on a profile photo.
  • Engagement rate, engagements divided by impressions.
  • Profile clicks, per post, as above.

For what you can open without paying, see our guide to Twitter analytics without Premium.

Are "who viewed my Twitter profile" apps real?

No. An app can only reach what X gives it, and X gives apps counts, not visitors.

X's Help Center describes the permissions an app can ask for. Posts, followers, Lists and DMs are on that list; profile visitors are not.

X's developer docs on post metrics tell the same story: impressions and profile clicks, as numbers. So a list of "visitors" can't come from X.

At best it's a guess from people who liked or replied. At worst it's made up.

The real cost is the access you grant. X's Help Center says what each level allows:

  • Read and write access lets an app post for you and "follow and unfollow accounts for you."
  • Direct Message access lets it read, send and delete your DMs.
  • Your password gives "complete control" of your account. Apps that use X's own sign-in, called OAuth, don't need it.

X's security tips put it plainly: "Never give your username and password out to third parties, especially those promising to get you followers, make you money, or verify you."

Unfollower apps connect the same way. Our guide to who unfollowed you on Twitter covers what read access is enough for.

How to remove an app that promised profile viewers

X's Help Center puts every connected app in one place:

  1. Open Settings and privacyOn x.com, logged in.
  2. Go to Apps and sessionsEvery connected app shows with its permissions.
  3. Pick the appRead what it can do under its name.
  4. Revoke accessThe button disconnects it.
  5. Change your passwordIf you ever typed it into the app.

Then watch for the warning signs X lists for a hijacked account. These include posts you didn't write and follows or unfollows you didn't make.

Can someone see that you viewed their profile?

Not by name. Opening someone's post adds one to its view count, X's help page says, and that count is a total.

Clicking their name or photo from a post can add to their profile clicks. That's a total too, seen only by them.

When not to use Weir

We run Weir. It reads public posts and their view counts, and it never sees who viewed anything.

  • You want the names of your profile viewers. No API has them, Weir included.
  • You want your own profile clicks. Only X shows those, and only to you.
  • You need one post's views. The number is under the post, free.
  • You need cheap bulk post reads. TwitterAPI.io lists $0.15 per 1,000 tweets, less than Weir at small volumes.

Weir fits one narrow job here: pulling view counts for many public posts into a script.

FAQ

Can you see who views your Twitter profile with Premium?

No. X's Premium help page lists no such feature in any tier. Premium and X Analytics show totals, such as impressions and profile clicks per post, never the people behind them.

Do X profile viewer apps work?

No. X gives apps counts, not visitor names, so no app can list your viewers. What a connected app does get is access to your account. If you connected one, revoke it under Settings and privacy, then Apps and sessions, and change your password if you typed it in.

Can people see if you view their tweets?

Not who. Your view adds one to the post's view count, which anyone can see. X shows only the total, so the author can't tell that one of those views was yours.

Does X show profile visits in analytics?

It shows profile clicks: how often people clicked your name, handle or photo from a post. That's a count for you as the author. X's dashboard and API docs list no way to see the people who clicked.

Sources

All checked on 22 October 2026, in the latest Wayback Machine copies of X's help and business pages, from June to October 2026:

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