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"A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind." - Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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XCheck
I thought I was doing well on X with 20K followers. Turns out, I was mostly talking to ghosts and bots that have invaded X but are hard to detect. That's why I built XCheck, a personal X detective that analyzes your network.
Backstory: X/Twitter user since 2007, gradually built a network. Recently noticed odd plummeting engagement. Manual analysis revealed a suspicion: inactive accounts and bots were significantly impacting my reach. Digging into other accounts, I discovered this wasn't isolated - it's a widespread X phenomenon.
Enter XCheck: A little open-source tool that crawls and analyzes your X account (or any other's) and uncovers hidden patterns in your social network.
XCheck's key features:
- Intuitive, interactive web UI for X crawling
- Analyzes followers/following of any public X account
- Auto-assigns quality scores to accounts
- Filtering, search and visualization tools
XCheck is free and open-source: https://github.com/samim23/xcheck
