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"Shadowban" on Twitter/X isn't one thing. It's a family of quiet restrictions: a search ban hides your tweets from search results entirely, a search suggestion ban keeps your handle out of the search dropdown, reply deboosting buries your replies behind "Show more replies", and a full ghost ban makes your tweets and replies invisible to almost everyone but you. X's own framing since 2023 has been "freedom of speech, not reach": the account keeps working, the distribution quietly doesn't.
Our checker takes your username, reads your public profile and recent tweet performance, and scores how closely the pattern matches a restricted account. You get a shadowban risk rating and an engagement score on screen, and a more detailed breakdown by email. No login, no password, and no connection to your account.
Worth saying plainly: X doesn't publish its restriction flags, so no external checker can read them directly. What the public data shows reliably is the effect, and for a suspected shadowban the effect is exactly what you care about.
Type your handle into the box above and add the email address where you want the full report. No password, no login, no app permissions.
We read your public profile and recent tweet stats, then compare the engagement against what an account your size normally gets. Restricted accounts leave a recognizable pattern in that data.
A few seconds later you'll see your shadowban risk and engagement score on screen, with the detailed report in your inbox. Free, no downloads, re-check as often as you like.
A search ban is invisible from inside your own account: you can find your tweets in search just fine while logged in, because X shows you your own content. Everyone else gets nothing. A checker that looks from the outside catches what your own view of the platform hides from you.
The manual check means logging out (or borrowing a friend's account), searching your recent tweets by exact phrase with "from:yourhandle", and scrolling threads to see whether your replies are collapsed. Doable, but slow. This runs the equivalent read in a few seconds from one form.
Impressions on X are noisy even for healthy accounts, and the algorithm's mood swings are well documented. Checking your status first tells you which problem you have: if the account is clean, a slow week is just a slow week, not something to fix with a three-day silence.
The checker reads publicly visible data only. It never asks for your password, never connects to your account, and X has no way of knowing you ran it. Check once or check daily while a ban clears; it changes nothing on your side.
Because X runs several kinds of restriction, the symptoms differ depending on which one hit you. Here's what each looks like in practice. If two or more sound familiar, run the checker above.
Log out and search an exact phrase from a recent tweet. If it's public, contains those words, and still doesn't appear, that's a search ban. Your own logged-in view will look normal, which is what makes this one so sneaky.
Your replies keep landing under "Show more replies", or worse, behind the "may contain offensive content" fold at the very bottom. That's reply deboosting, and it's the most common restriction on X by a wide margin.
Open your analytics. A normal slump has variance; a restriction flattens everything at once. If every tweet since a certain day sits at a tenth of your usual impressions, note that day, because whatever triggered the flag happened around then.
Type your exact handle into the search box from a logged-out session. If it doesn't appear in the dropdown suggestions even when typed in full, you have a search suggestion ban, the mildest and most common tier of restriction.
Likes and replies suddenly come only from people who already follow you. When tweets stop being shown in For You and search, strangers physically can't find them, so the mix of who engages shifts overnight.
A recent notice about breaking the X Rules, a locked-account episode, or a tweet slapped with a visibility label often precedes account-level restriction. If one arrived right before your reach died, that's probably your trigger.
The good news about Twitter shadowbans: most are short. Search suggestion bans in particular often clear within days once the behavior that caused them stops. Here's the sequence.
Check notifications for rule-violation notices and delete the tweets they point at. Also clear out anything that reads as spam: repeated identical tweets, walls of hashtags, reply-guy blasts at big accounts. Those patterns are what the spam classifier keys on.
Go quiet for 48-72 hours: no tweets, no like sprees, no follow bursts. Revoke access for third-party automation in your settings while you wait. Restrictions on X age out; continuing the flagged behavior resets the clock.
Return with original tweets and normal conversation. Skip the follow-unfollow games and the copy-paste replies. If your account has no verified phone number, add one; unverified accounts sit closer to the spam threshold to begin with.
How long does a Twitter shadowban last? Search suggestion bans often clear in a couple of days. Full search bans and reply deboosting usually run one to two weeks. Repeat or serious violations can stretch past 30 days. In every case the timer only really starts once the triggering behavior stops.
The questions we get most often about Twitter shadowbans, answered without the fluff.
