Twitter (X) Shadowban Test

X's Under the Hood shows the labels X applied to your own account and posts in a past month, if your account qualifies. Shadowban Radar complements it: it tests what other people see today on any public X account, for free and with no login.

• Under the Hood: X's official report, only for the logged-in owner of an account at least 1 year old with at least 10 posts that month. It comes out about 10 days after that month ends.
• Shadowban Radar: any public account, of any age, with no login. It runs the 4 checks (search suggestion ban, search ban, ghost ban, reply deboosting) on what X serves today, with a confidence level for each check.

If Under the Hood looks clean and a checker finds a restriction, both can be right: Under the Hood covers a month that has already ended, the check covers today. For today's answer on any account, run Shadowban Radar's free check; for the labels X applied in a past month, open Under the Hood if your account qualifies.

Read what Under the Hood shows and what it misses.

Shadowban Radar measures instead of estimating: every verdict comes from X's own public data, read on X through a specialized data provider, from the same search results and conversation threads X serves to anyone. Nothing is inferred from view counts or engagement, no login or password is ever needed, each verdict states its confidence level, and every result shows when X's data was read.

The two search checks observe whether the account or its posts appear in X's search. The reply checks read real conversations and only conclude once one has been read to the end. The score is the share of measured checks that passed, not a probability or an internal X score.

Yes. We do not ask X: we measure what X shows to everyone else. X has publicly confirmed it limits reach without telling the account, under its "freedom of speech, not reach" policy.

Each check compares what a public account should show in search and in conversations with what actually shows. Every result states when X's data was read.

A check needs something to measure. If the account's recent replies sit in conversations too large to read in full, or whose author restricts who can reply, the evidence is missing. The check then returns Untestable and is dropped from the score, instead of being turned into a verdict we cannot back.

• "No replies to check" means the account has not replied to anyone recently, so the ghost ban and reply deboosting checks have no reply to look for. Both checks then count as completed, never as failed, and stay out of the score.
• On a private account or an account with no posts, the ghost ban and reply deboosting checks cannot run: the result shows "Private account" or "No posts yet" on those two checks instead of a verdict.

Yes. Shadowban Recovery checks your public account throughout the day and sends alerts for confirmed visibility changes.

• The full four-check audit reruns at least once a day.
• Available signals depend on what the account lets us measure.
• You are told within hours when a restriction on your search or reply visibility lands or lifts, and after the daily audit for the rest.
• It reads your public profile only.

One payment: €3.99 once, 14 days of monitoring. No subscription, and monitoring stops by itself when the pass ends. You switch it on from your result page after a free check.

It can be a search suggestion ban. A search suggestion ban means your X account stops appearing in the dropdown suggestions when someone types your name or handle.

The first of the 4 checks tells you whether X still suggests your account when someone searches for it.

Run the free check to tell the two apart. If none of the 4 checks fails, the result reads "No shadowban detected": none of the restrictions the checks test for was found in search or in conversations.

Low reach on that account most likely comes from something the 4 checks do not measure.

Checkers do not run the same tests, and most give a yes or no without saying how sure they are. Some estimate a risk from views or engagement instead of reading X's data. Others stop working when X changes its pages.

Shadowban Radar reads X's own search results and conversations through a specialized data provider, and states its confidence for each verdict. When two tools disagree, search your exact post text from a logged out browser.