How to see who unfollowed you on X

#Quick answer

X does not show you who unfollowed you. It notifies you about new followers and says nothing about departures, and there is no unfollower list anywhere in the app or on x.com. To get names you either check profiles by hand for the "Follows you" label, or connect a third-party tracker such as Fedica or Circleboom. Every tracker shares one hard limit: it can only report unfollows that happen after you connect it, because nothing recorded who unfollowed you before that.

Last updated: September 2026

#TL;DR

Your follower count on X (formerly Twitter) dropped by four and you want the four names. That is the whole question, and the honest answer has two halves.

Half one: nothing on X gives you those names natively, and no tool can retrieve them retroactively. Trackers work by taking a snapshot of your follower list the day you connect and diffing later snapshots against it. Before that first snapshot there is no record to consult, which is why "see who unfollowed you in the last 6 months, free" pages tend to be selling something.

Half two: connecting a tracker today makes tomorrow's unfollows visible with dates. That is genuinely useful once, for diagnosis, and mostly a distraction after that. Below: the free manual method, what the paid tools actually deliver in 2026 with their real caps, why the free apps disappeared, and the metric worth watching instead.

#Does X have a native unfollower list?

No, and it never has. The asymmetry is deliberate: a follow is a positive social act X wants to surface, and an unfollow is a quiet exit it does not want to turn into a confrontation. So the notifications tab fills up with "so-and-so followed you" and stays silent going the other way.

What X does give you natively is aggregate. Your X analytics dashboard shows follower counts over time, so you can see the shape of a drop, when it happened, and which posts were live around it. That will often answer the question behind the question. If 40 accounts left on a Tuesday, the timing usually points at a specific post more reliably than a list of 40 handles would.

#The free manual check that still works

For one account at a time, this takes five seconds and needs no tool:

1. Open the account's profile on x.com or in the app.
2. Look directly under their @handle.
3. If "Follows you" appears, they still follow you. If it is gone, they do not.

That label is the ground truth every tool is ultimately reading. It is exact, free, and unlimited, and it is the right method when you have a specific person in mind. It is obviously useless for finding out who left when you have no candidate, which is the entire reason trackers exist.

#What unfollower trackers actually show

Two tools still do this properly on X in 2026, and both are honest about the limits on their own pages.

Fedica's distinction between a deliberate unfollow, a deactivated account, and a suspended one is the most useful feature in this category and the one people miss. A chunk of any "unfollower" list is not rejection at all, it is X removing spam accounts and inactive users. Reading a purge as an audience revolt is the standard mistake here.

Circleboom's 25,000-follower ceiling on the unfollower features is the detail to check before paying. Its separate "you're not following back" view runs up to 300,000 followers, which is a different and much cheaper query since it only compares two current lists rather than tracking history. Our full Circleboom review covers the rest of what it does, most of which is bulk account cleanup rather than tracking.

Prices move often in this category, so read the vendor's own plans page on the day you buy rather than trusting any roundup, including this one.

#The blind spot every tool shares

This deserves its own section because it is the single most misrepresented thing in this whole topic.

An unfollower tracker is a diffing engine. On connection day it stores your follower list. Later it stores it again and reports what disappeared. That is the entire mechanism, and it means:

• There is no history before day one. Fedica states it plainly: tracking starts the moment you connect your account, not before, and it cannot reconstruct who unfollowed you earlier. Circleboom acknowledges the same constraint.
• Resolution equals check frequency. If a tool snapshots daily, someone who followed and unfollowed you within the same day never appears.
• Switching tools resets the clock. Your new tool starts its own baseline from scratch.

The practical move follows directly: if you think you will ever want this data, connect something now, even on a free tier, and let it accumulate. The value is in the archive, and the archive only starts when you start it.

#Why the free unfollower apps disappeared

Every one of these tools reads your follower list through X's API, and that stopped being free. X ended self-serve free API access on February 6, 2026 and moved new developers onto pay-per-use billing, where reads are metered.

Follower-list reads are the worst possible workload under that model. Tracking a 10,000-follower account daily means pulling 10,000 records every day, per user, forever, just to detect a handful of changes. The unit economics of a free unfollower app stopped working overnight, which is why the survivors are subscription products with follower caps and why several well-known free trackers simply shut down. The wider picture is in our breakdown of X API costs and access.

So the current rule of thumb: a site offering unlimited free retroactive unfollower data in 2026 is either using old cached data, harvesting your login, or about to disappear. Connect through official X sign-in, and check what permissions you are granting.

#What to watch instead

After the one-time diagnosis, unfollower lists are a low-value metric that feels high-value, which is the worst combination. Better signals, in order:

• Net follower change per week. Losing 20 and gaining 90 is a good week. An unfollower list shows you only the 20.
• Which posts preceded a drop. Line up follower dips against your posting history in analytics. A sharp drop after one post is a content signal worth acting on; a slow trickle is normal churn.
• Follower quality over count. Accounts that never engage cost you nothing when they leave. There is more on this in free X followers: how to get real ones.
• Reply and profile-visit rates. These move before follower count does and tell you whether new people are finding you at all. See free social media analytics tools for the ones worth connecting.

Churn is structural. Inactive accounts get purged, people clean their timelines in bulk, and interests shift. An account posting daily to a real audience will always lose some followers every week, and the only account that never loses any is one nobody notices.

#The habit that actually moves the number

Unfollows are a lagging indicator of a posting habit. The accounts that grow steadily show up in other people's replies most days, in their own voice, on a narrow set of topics, which is the same routine described in how to get followers on X. Consistency beats any tracker.

Sustaining that by hand is the hard part, and it is the gap X-Autopilot is built for: it drafts on-brand posts and replies through real Chrome on your own Mac, so the daily presence does not depend on you being at the keyboard. One honesty note, since your account is what is at risk: engaging through a browser tool is a gray area under X's automation rules rather than a sanctioned API route, and no tool removes account risk. Running locally on your own machine and IP is a smaller detection surface than cloud tools posting from shared pools, which is reduced risk, not zero.

Short version: check the "Follows you" label when you have a name in mind, connect a tracker today if you want tomorrow's departures logged, ignore anyone selling you last quarter's unfollows, and judge the account on net growth rather than on who walked out.