// about / editorial policy
About X Shadow Ban
Who runs this tool, how it is funded, and the rules every claim on this site has to pass before it is published.
- Checks performed
- 4
- Login required
- No
- Cost of the free tier
- 0
- Unknown results
- Marked untestable
What this tool is
X Shadow Ban is a free web tool that measures the public visibility of an X (Twitter) account. It performs four checks — search suggestions, search results, hidden replies in public threads, and reply ranking — and reports each one as a pass, a fail, untestable, or an error.
The tool reads only publicly observable data. It never asks for an X password, cookie, session or OAuth token, and it does not scrape X or attempt to bypass access controls.
- A check that cannot be verified from public data is reported as untestable, never as a pass.
- The score is passed checks divided by measurable checks, so an account with one measurable check is not scored on three unknowns.
- Free scans need no registration and no account.
Who runs it
X Shadow Ban is published by FreeOnlineBox, a small independent project that collects free, no-login web tools. It is one tool in that collection; the tool index at the domain root lists everything available.
It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to X Corp. X, Twitter, and their logos are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to describe the platform the tool measures.
How it is funded
The free tier is funded by a small operating budget and by advertising. Data providers charge per call, and that cost is what the budget, the optional paid tier and the ads cover.
Ads are served by Google AdSense, which may set cookies to personalise them. There are no affiliate links and no data resale. The free tier stays free: if a paid tier exists, it exists to fund the checks for everyone else, not to fence off the tool.
Editorial policy
Every guide and answer on this site follows the same rule the scanner follows: describe what can be observed, and say so plainly when something cannot be measured.
Specifically, this site does not claim to know X's internal moderation decisions, does not publish invented statistics, does not present community-reported figures as official numbers, and does not publish a score it did not actually measure.
When X changes how its systems behave, the guidance here points at the official X Help Center and Creator Center rather than guessing. Every restriction described on this site can also be checked by hand using the manual self-check guide, without using any tool at all.
- Claims describe publicly observable behaviour, never internal decisions.
- Figures taken from community reports are labelled as community reports.
- Anything a reader can verify by hand, a reader can verify by hand.
What this site will not do
It will not ask for your X credentials, and it will not ask you to install anything.
It will not show a score for a check it could not run, and it will not treat missing data as a pass.
It will not present itself as an official X service, and it will not tell you that it can un-ban an account.
Data and privacy
A random browser identifier and the result of each scan are stored so that the daily free limit can be enforced and so that a scan can be re-opened for a short period. Scan results are deleted after seven days.
No X password, cookie or authentication token is ever requested or stored. The full policy is on the privacy page.
X Shadow Ban measures public visibility only. It is not affiliated with X Corp, it cannot see X's internal decisions, and its results are not an official status or instruction from X.
X Shadow Ban is a free, no-login checker that measures the public visibility of an X (Twitter) account. It runs four checks — search suggestions, search results, hidden replies in public threads, and reply ranking — and scores only the checks it could actually measure. Checks that cannot be verified from public data are reported as untestable and excluded from the score instead of being counted as a pass.