GrowX Features Guide: Follow-Back Scoring, Targeting Filters, Analytics and Cleanup Tools

Following thousands of random accounts is easy and rarely useful. The value of a Twitter growth tool is in choosing who to follow, tracking what works and cleaning up afterwards. This guide explains the decision-making parts of GrowX: the follow-back score, the targeting filters, the analytics and the cleanup tools. For the automation side (pacing, caps and safety) read How GrowX auto follow works.

Every candidate receives an estimated follow-back probability from 1 to 99. It starts from a neutral 50 and moves up or down based on signals that tend to predict a follow-back. It is an estimate built from public profile data, not a promise about any individual account.

• Follow ratio (following divided by followers): accounts that follow many more people than follow them score higher; accounts that are followed far more than they follow score lower.
• Audience size: small and mid-sized accounts (up to a few thousand followers) score better than very large ones, and extremely tiny accounts are slightly penalised.
• How many accounts they follow: people who follow hundreds or thousands of accounts are more likely to follow back than people who follow almost nobody.
• Follow-back language in the bio or name, such as "follow back", "f4f" or "mutuals" (you can edit this keyword list).
• Recent activity: a recent post raises the score; long silence lowers it. When X does not provide a last-post time, GrowX estimates activity from posts per day.
• Account age and profile quality: very new accounts, accounts without a profile photo, without a bio or protected accounts score lower; verified accounts get a small bump.
• Freshness: being one of the source's newest followers adds a little.

The minimum score (55 by default) acts as a quality dial. Around 40 favours volume, around 70 favours quality. Results also show up as score bands in the queue (below 50, 50-59, 60-69, 70-79 and 80 and above) so you can see how your candidates are distributed.

Filters are hard rules applied before scoring. An account that fails any enabled filter is skipped and never queued.

• Relationship: skip accounts you already follow and accounts that already follow you.
• Audience: minimum and maximum followers (15 and 8,000 by default), minimum following (40) and a minimum following-to-followers ratio (0.4).
• Activity and age: minimum number of posts (5), minimum account age in days (30) and a last-active window (45 days).
• Profile: require a profile photo, optionally require a bio, skip protected accounts, and either skip verified accounts or follow only verified ones.
• Keywords: exclude words (for example adult-content terms are excluded by default), require include words, and match location keywords against the profile.

Core filters are part of the free plan. Advanced filtering (keyword include/exclude lists, location, verified-only, account age and last-active rules) is planned as a Premium feature; see the Free vs Premium comparison and the roadmap post.

• Follow history with follow-back status for each account GrowX followed.
• Source performance: the follow-back rate of each source profile, so you can double down on the best ones.
• Growth chart of followers and following over time, recorded by periodic snapshots.
• Goal planner: set a monthly follower goal (5,000 by default) and see days left, the pace you need per day and where your current pace is heading.
• Backup and restore: export your settings, sources, never-follow list and history to a file and import it later or on another computer.

After growing, most people want to tidy their following list. The Cleanup page scans who you follow and who follows you, then lets you review the results before anything happens.

• Inactive accounts: accounts whose latest post is older than a threshold (30, 90, 180 or 365 days). If X does not tell GrowX when an account last posted, it is labelled "unknown", never "inactive".
• Not following back: accounts you follow that do not follow you. If your followers list could not be read to the end, those accounts are marked "unverified" and bulk selection is turned off for that view.
• Review first: you filter, search, sort and select the accounts yourself. The unfollow runner only touches accounts you selected and confirmed.
• Safe pace: unfollows run one at a time with delays, breaks and rolling hourly and daily caps (Safe: up to 30 per hour and 200 per day; Balanced: 45 per hour and 320 per day), and each selection is re-checked with X right before it is unfollowed.
• It stops on a rate limit, an automation warning, a sign-out or a lock, and does not retry or work around them.

Cleanup scanning and manual selection are planned to stay free; large select-all batches are planned as Premium. Details are in the features overview.

1. Start with 3-5 source profiles that closely match your audience.
2. Use the Safe or Balanced pace, active hours and (for new accounts) warm-up.
3. Leave the default filters on for a few days, then raise the minimum score if the queue is too noisy.
4. Check Analytics weekly, keep the best sources and replace the weakest.
5. After a week or two, run a Cleanup scan and manually unfollow accounts that never followed back, not on the same day as heavy following.

Questions about a setting? Read How it works or contact support.