X now shows how many of your followers were active in the last 24 hours

X has added a new Active followers metric to its Account Analytics, letting users see exactly how many of their followers were active on the platform in the past 24 hours.

The feature shows up as a new tile in Account Analytics, sitting right next to the existing Verified followers count. X’s product head, Nikita Bier, shared his own screenshot, which shows his account has roughly 680,000 active followers out of around 1 million total followers, which works out to about 64% active followers.

Bier confirmed the feature was shipped today. He credited engineers Lingyun Gao and Zach Warunek for building it. X employee Warunek was the first to highlight it publicly, noting the new tile had appeared in Account Analytics.

According to Bier, people tend to overestimate how many of their followers are online at any given moment, which leads to frustration when a post doesn’t blow up immediately. This metric is meant to ground those expectations in something real.

More is coming, too. Bier said X plans to add 3-hour active follower data, which would make it a lot easier to see how long it actually takes a post to reach all the people who are online that day. So this should be useful for anyone trying to time posts strategically.

The feature is part of a wider push by X to build out its analytics offering. Verified follower counts were added to analytics a while ago, and this looks like a natural next step.

Users have already started asking for more. Some want a way to clean up their following list by seeing which accounts have been inactive for weeks or months.

Bier hasn’t confirmed anything there, but Allegra Jacchia, another member of the team, replied to Warunek’s post with “more coming,” so something is in the works. Unless they, too, are hinting about the 3-hour active followers feature that Bier mentioned.

That said, it’s worth noting that it has also been tightening its posting rules lately. Non-premium users now face new restrictions on how much they can post, and separately, some users have been hitting a “Failed to send” error even when they haven’t come close to those limits.

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