Summary
Access to users’ information is limited because of Twitter’s privacy policy, which is why other people won’t easily be able to tweet, followers, and other details on your profile. But just as much as they won’t be able to see who viewed your profile, they won’t be able to see you viewing their profile as well.
Twitter doesn’t have any features for seeing their users who view your profile. This means there’s no way you can see their Twitter name or account.
You also won’t be able to see other users’ recent activities on Twitter.
Knowing who viewed your profile or their recent activities goes against Twitter’s privacy policy. There’s only limited information you can access on other users.
However, you can see the number of views on who sees your profile through Twitter Analytics, a feature built within Twitter. Other alternatives to Twitter Analytics are third-party apps with the same feature plus more features to help you monitor and provide insights into your progress.
Now, I’ll show you how you can track the number of users who viewed your Twitter profile. Plus, I’ll guide you through other settings on privacy and apps you can use to keep track of your Twitter profile views.
Use Twitter Analytics
You can view how many have visited your profile through Twitter Analytics.
This feature is an essential tool, especially in helping you to grow your brand through your Twitter account. Through monitoring the metrics, you can assess the progress of your Twitter account and tweets.
Generally, it gives you access to the following data:
- Tweet activity
- Followers’ interests, location, and demographics
- Twitter Cards (app installs, clicks, and retweets)
To turn on Twitter Analytics, you can follow these steps:
- Once logged in to your Twitter account, go to the menu sidebar on the left and click the More tab
- Then select Analytics and be redirected to its page
- Once you’re on the webpage, click on the ‘Turn analytics on’ button
Once your Twitter Analytics is activated, you’ll see the number of profile visits and retweets, tweet impressions, recent follows, and unfollows. You can track which of your tweets has the most impressions and the engagement it’s getting.
Apps To You See Who Views Your Twitter Profile
Just the same as Twitter Analytics, these apps are mostly used for monitoring the metrics on your tweets, profile visits, and other data such as demographics and location. Twitter won’t be able to share further information, such as each viewer’s Twitter account or IP addresses, to Analytics and third-party apps.
1. Crowdfire
Crowdfire lets you handle social media engagements, such as further insights on each tweet and other things you share. It’s especially useful if you want to observe the trends and produce effective content. Crowdfire can give you a weekly summary of the updates and performance of your Twitter account.
The app can also advise you regarding your followers and schedule your tweets so you can share them whenever most of your followers are online. It has an unlimited free app and a premium version for $9.99 a month, or you get it for $49 a year.
2. Sprout Social
With Sprout Social, you’ll have to connect your Twitter account with the app and instantly retrieve all the data without having to log in manually every time. It can retrieve information such as active topics, tweet performances, followers, and demographics for further audience segmentation.
Additionally, their app has multiple other features:
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- The dashboard displays relevant figures
- Also provides statistical data
- Schedule your posts
- Customize social calendar
- Works on mobile devices
Plans
If you use this third-party app, you can choose from its 4 plans. You can start the plan with a free trial or request a demo before buying the plan.
- Standard
- Publish, schedule, draft, and queue posts
- Social calendar
- Paid advertising tools to promote FB posts
- Profiles, keywords, and locations monitoring
- Up to 5 social profiles
- $249 per month
- Professional – Most popular
- Competitive reports for Twitter, IG, and FB
- Trend analysis for Twitter keywords and hashtags
- Reply speed and time evaluations
- Premium social reporting for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram
- Custom workflows for multiple approvers and steps
- Unlimited social profiles
- CRM, Helpdesk, and Social Commerce integrations
- $399 per month
- Advanced
- Content and digital asset library
- Saved and suggested replies
- Automated Link Tracking
- Automation tools with chatbots
- Message Spike Alerts for increased message activity
- Twitter surveys to specify NPS or CSAT
- $499 per month
- Enterprise
- Custom-built for every unique need of your company
- You can request a demo
- 24/5 customer service
- Premier consulting services
- Social Listening to uncover brand influencers, competitive intel, and emerging trends
- Employee Advocacy for brand’s organic reach
- Contact them further for pricing
Connecting Your Twitter Account to Sprout Social
To check your progress, connect your Twitter account to Sprout Social by following these steps:
- Once you’ve signed up or logged in, on the sidebar on the bottom left, click on the icon to open the Account settings
- Then select Connect a Profile
- Link your Twitter account to access data via API
3. SocialPilot
SocialPilot offers real-time analytics from your Twitter account. You can track your performance, schedule your posts, track your competitors’ progress and observe their social media strategies. It’s suitable for small businesses and individuals for their profession, agencies, and enterprise.
1. For Small Businesses and Professionals – you’ll be able to have email support and content suggestions to have a manageable queue.
2. For Marketing Agencies and Teams – has built-in workflows for team collaboration.
3. For Enterprise – can be customized according to your brand and has phone and email support.
4. Hootsuite
Hootsuite is an easy-to-use social media manager with features for getting insights from their weekly trends, which include popular tweets, retweets, and newly gained followers. They have advanced metrics where you can check your social media performance organized accordingly by clicks per location.
You can choose from one of their 4 monthly plans:
- Professional Plan
- Unlimited posts with post scheduling
- Access to messages in one inbox
- 1 User with 10 Social accounts
- $49 per month
- Team Plan
- Unlimited posts with post scheduling
- Access to messages in one inbox
- Up to 3 Users with 20 Social accounts
- $249 per month
- Business Plan
- Unlimited posts with post scheduling
- Access to messages in one inbox
- Assign roles & permissions
- Inbound and outbound tagging
- Customer support
- Up to 5 Users with 35 Social accounts
- $739 per month
- Enterprise Plan
- Unlimited posts with post scheduling
- Access to messages in one inbox
- Assign roles & permissions
- Inbound and outbound tagging
- Customer support
- Social ads management
- Social ads analytics & reporting
- Team productivity reporting
- Start with 5 Users with 50 social accounts
- Custom pricing
5. eClincher
eClincher can manage your social media apps, including your Twitter account. It has features that will help you with content management, engagements and social listening, and analytics.
Additionally, all 3 monthly plans have free trials, and you can have a 10% discount if you avail of an annual plan, and you can choose from any of these:
- Basic
- 1 user with 10 profiles
- 24/7 live support
- For a single brand
- Create, publish, and schedule content
- Content and Visual Calendar
- Suggested Content (up to 3 feeds)
- Analytics report
- Listening and Monitoring (up to 10 feeds)
- Add on: Local SEO up to 10 searches ($15/month)
- $65/month
- Premier
- 3 users with 20 profiles
- 24/7 Live Support
- For a single brand
- Create, publish, and schedule content
- Content and Visual Calendar
- Workflows with post-approval
- Team collaboration
- Suggested Content (up to 10 feeds)
- Analytics report
- Auto Post (up to 10 RSS & WP feeds)
- Listening and Monitoring (up to 50 feeds)
- Competitors analytics reports
- Add on: Local SEO up to 10 searches ($15/month)
- $175/month
- Agency
- 6 users with 40 profiles
- 24/7 Live Support
- For unlimited brands
- Create, publish, and schedule content
- Content and Visual Calendar
- Suggested Content (up to 10 feeds)
- Analytics report
- Workflows with post-approval
- Team collaboration
- Team productivity reports
- Add on: Local SEO up to 10 searches ($15/month)
- $425/month
6. CoSchedule
CoSchedule is primarily a social media marketing tool with features such as engagement rates, content calendars, and keeping track of your followers.
The app has a free marketing calendar where you can enjoy the following features:
- Unlimited marketing projects and content
- Social media publishing for up to 2 user profiles
- Basic customer support
- Marketing and project management integrations
But they also have a pro paid version that’s an advanced marketing calendar and unlimited publishing for $29/month that has the following features:
- Shareable, read-only calendar views (unlimited)
- Team task management and collaboration
- Create custom workflow templates
- Social media publishing (unlimited)
- Bulk social media scheduling
- Social media campaign templates
- priority customer support
Avoid Browser Extensions
There are no browser extensions that can retrieve the data as to who’s viewing your Twitter profile. Additionally, they may harm your computer or smartphone since they may be malware codes that can steal your private information.
Can You See Who Views Your Tweets?
You won’t be able to see individual users that have viewed your tweets. Generally, Twitter Analytics and other third-party apps can only provide impressions on your tweets or how many have viewed them.
Set Your Twitter Account to Private
As much as other users won’t be able to tell that you have viewed their profile, you also won’t know which users viewed and stalked your profile. If you want to keep your profile hidden from users who aren’t your followers, you can follow these steps to have a private account:
- Once you log in to your Twitter account, go to the menu tab on the left side and click on the More tab
- Then select Settings and Privacy
- From there, you can see the list and select Privacy and Safety
- Then from the list, select ‘Protect your tweets’ and click on the Protect button, which will make your tweets only available to your Twitter followers
As you activate the private mode for your Twitter account, users who aren’t your followers won’t be able to see your tweets. They can only view your Twitter profile, including your username, bio, and the number and accounts of people you follow and your followers.
Final Thoughts
Although you won’t be able to view each user who has viewed your Twitter profile, you can still keep track of the number of users that view your profile. Other important data include demographics, social ads analytics, and the views or engagement per location.
Access to this data is legal, safe, and helpful enough to get insights from your metrics to increase your growth on Twitter.
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