Make your X interaction circle

X Circle draws the people an X (Twitter) account interacts with most, as rings around its profile photo: the closest in the middle, the occasional ones on the outside. It works for any public account, needs no login, and gives you a PNG to post or keep.

How it works

1. It reads recent public posts. Two streams at once: the account's own posts and replies, and the posts by other people that mention it. Both come straight to this browser tab through a free third-party service that reads public X posts.
2. It turns each post into interactions. A reply, a quote, a repost or a mention links two people, in one direction. The reply chain X puts at the start of every answer is not counted as a mention.
3. It scores every person. Each interaction counts by type, fades with age, and counts for more when it goes both ways.
4. It draws the circle. The account sits in the middle, the top of the ranking packs around it with the largest photos, and each ring further out is smaller, up to 50 people.

How the score is calculated

A reply is worth 3, a quote 2.5, a mention 1.5 and a repost 1: the more effort an interaction takes, the more it says. Each value halves every 30 days, so last week weighs more than last month.

Then the two directions are combined. With what the account gave someone on one side and what it got back on the other, the score is the square of the sum of their square roots. One way only, it stays the plain sum. Evenly both ways, it doubles. Someone who talks with you ends up closer than someone who only talks at you, or whom you only talk at.

Under the picture every person is listed with what put them there, so you can check the ranking and take anyone out of the picture.

What it does not do

• It sees public posts only: no likes, no follows, no direct messages, nothing from private accounts.
• It reads a few hundred recent posts, not the whole history. For an account that posts all day that is only a few days; for a quieter one, months.
• It depends on a free third-party service that reads public X posts. When that service is slow or down, X Circle is too. When X search is not available, the circle counts the replies under the account's posts instead of every mention, and the page says so.
• It does not keep a history of your circles and cannot track changes over time.
• The circle is a picture of recent activity, not of friendship.

Where your data goes

Unlike the other CutNoodle tools, X Circle has to fetch something from the internet: the posts. The username you type is sent from this tab to a third-party service that reads public X posts, and the profile photos load from X's own image server. CutNoodle's servers are not involved in making the circle.

Only the share link uses a CutNoodle server, and only when you press it. The details are in the privacy policy.

Common questions