We run the one shadowban test that is actually testable and give you a straight verdict, including “unclear” when that is the truth. No fake certainty, no scare tactics. One free check a day, because every check is a live lookup against Twitter’s API that we pay for per call.
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Three steps
Any public Twitter account, usually your own.
We check that the account is reachable and whether it appears in Twitter search, the one signal that can be verified.
Clear, flagged, or unclear, with the reason for each check spelled out.
“Shadowban” is a loose word for several different things: not appearing in search, replies being hidden behind “show more,” or reach quietly dropping. Only the first is testable from outside the platform. The others depend on how Twitter ranks content for other people, which no external tool can see. So a checker that gives you a confident green or red light on all of them is guessing.
It is tempting to hand you a dramatic “YOU ARE SHADOWBANNED” because it drives clicks. We would rather be useful. When a signal is genuinely untestable, we say so, and we explain why. If your reach really has dropped, the more productive move is to check your TweepCred and your engagement rate over time, not to chase a phantom ban.
Twitter does not use the word “shadowban” anywhere in its own documentation. What it documents is limiting post visibility, and it lists exactly what that means. Six surfaces, in Twitter’s own words:
Only the first can be checked from outside.Search either returns your posts or it does not, and anyone can verify that. The rest describe how Twitter ranks your content inside other people’s feeds and replies, which is not visible to any external tool. That is the whole reason we test one thing and say so.
Any checker that hands you a confident yes or no on all five is guessing at four of them.
Twitter has never published a duration, and anyone who gives you one is guessing.You will see “24 hours”, “three days” and “two weeks” repeated across the web with nothing behind any of them. Here is what Twitter does actually document.
One thing worth holding on to while you wait: Twitter states that if you are filtered from search, your followers still receive your posts, and a reply or mention still reaches the person you sent it to. Being missing from search is not the same as being invisible.
Twitter publishes the list of behaviours that get an account filtered out of search. It is short, and it is specific:
Then a separate checklist for why your posts specifically may not appear:
Check your third-party apps. Twitter says an account may be filtered from search if it is logged into an application that is updating many accounts with similar or duplicate content. That includes tools like ours, so it is worth being specific: review everything with access to your account and remove whatever you do not recognise or no longer use.
Sources for this section, all from Twitter’s own help centre: our range of enforcement options, about search rules and restrictions, and help with X search.
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