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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

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