A 300-follower account and a 300,000-follower account look
identical on X until you open the profile. BoostX puts the numbers under the
name — how big they are, how often they post, and how far the post actually
travelled.
a builder@someindiehacker3.1Kfollowers·890posts·2.1posts/day·27×reach
new account@justjoined84followers·12posts
Colour tracks account size. Where there isn't enough data for a
figure, nothing is shown — never a dash or a question mark.
Four numbers, under every name
Read from what X already renders on the page. Nothing is fetched on your
behalf and nothing is requested from X's API.
followers
The count you'd otherwise open a profile to see. Coloured by size tier,
so you can scan a screen instead of reading it.
posts
Lifetime post count, which tells you whether 40,000 followers took ten
years or ten weeks.
posts/day
Original posts only — replies excluded. Measured across the posts
actually seen rather than dividing a lifetime total by account age, which
would answer a different question.
reach
How many times a post's views cover its author's following. Under 1×
it stayed inside their own audience. Well above, X pushed it to people who
don't follow them.
A real timeline with the extension running.
Reach, corrected for how old the post is
Raw views ÷ followers mostly measures a post's age, not how far it spread. A
post twenty minutes old has barely any views yet; the same post two days later
has all of them.
Across the posts collected so far, the median ran 0.019× under
fifteen minutes and 2.93× past a day — a 150× spread with nothing
about the actual travelling changed. BoostX divides by the share of views
that have typically landed by that age, which flattens the age effect from
12.6× down to 1.3×.
So a twenty-minute-old post and a two-day-old
post from the same account read about the same. That's the whole claim.
Set a size, and the timeline reorganises
Pick a follower threshold. Everything above it gets a highlight rail;
everything below fades back, or disappears.
Highlight at 10,000 followers.
Dim below the threshold. Hover restores a dimmed post; hide removes it entirely.
Dim and hide apply to the timeline only.
They never touch a conversation you've opened.
What it doesn't do
No sign-in. There is no account, and nothing to create.
No access to your X account. It can't post, follow, like, or read
your messages.
Nothing that identifies you. Statistics about public posts are
collected to compute posting rates and what a typical post does. No user id,
no session id, no browsing history.
Runs only on x.com. Every other site is untouched.