How do I check if a Twitter account is following another account?

January 30, 2022 9:52 AM

How do I check if one Twitter account (X) is following another Twitter account (Y). Neither of these are my own Twitter account (Z).
posted by andoatnp to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

On a user's page it will say something like

Joined January 2019
386 Following 159 Followers

If you click on "followers" it will list them all, which can be a lot to scroll through, but there's also a tab that says "Followers you know" which only shows the people who follow them who you yourself follow.

So if you're already following either account, or don't mind following (even temporarily) either account, it's pretty easy. Otherwise I think you just have to scroll through a big list of followers.
posted by aubilenon at 10:00 AM on January 30, 2022 [1 favorite]

The quickest way, pretty much what aubilenon said:
1. Follow Twitter account (x).
2. Go to profile for Twitter account (y).
3. You’ll see the words “followed by” and then a list of accounts that you follow that also follow (y).
4. You don’t need to click on the Followers link, although that will also work.
5. Unfollow Twitter account (x) if you don’t want to follow them.
posted by daikon at 10:16 AM on January 30, 2022

Response by poster: It was super annoying scanning through hundreds of followers to do this manually, so I found a website that does this: https://www.doesfollow.com/
posted by andoatnp at 2:07 PM on January 30, 2022