{
  "id": 17180418,
  "title": "How Follow-Back Scores Work: Building a 1-99 Ranking for X Accounts in a Chrome Extension",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/how-follow-back-scores-work-building-a-1-99-ranking-for-x-accounts-in",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-30T05:15:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/shahriar_ahmed_937be55f35/how-follow-back-scores-work-building-a-1-99-ranking-for-x-accounts-in-a-chrome-extension-2f10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "When growing a small account on X, the key question isn't what to post, but whose attention deserves your time. To address this issue, the author developed a Chrome extension called GrowX, featuring a follow-back score ranging from 1 to 99. This score estimates how likely an account is to follow you back, ranking potential targets for engagement. The scoring system considers six signals, each contributing to the overall score in a weighted manner. Factors such as follow ratio, recent activity, account size, profile completeness, niche relevance, and account age all play a role in determining the score. The extension runs entirely on the user's device, processing scores locally without any server interaction. This approach ensures speed, privacy, and cost-effectiveness for the author, a student with a pre-revenue product. To use the follow-back score effectively, the author recommends starting with relevant sources, such as creators in your niche, sorting accounts by score, and carefully reviewing bios. By focusing on high-scoring targets and measuring follow-backs by source, the author was able to optimize their growth strategy.",
  "summary": "When you're trying to grow a small account on X, the hardest question isn't \"what should I post?\" It's \"whose attention is actually worth my time?\" Following people at random fills your feed with noise and rarely builds a real audience. So while building GrowX , my Chrome extension for X growth, I spent a lot of time on one feature: a follow-back score that rates any account from 1 to 99. This…",
  "key_points": [
    "GrowX Chrome extension provides 1-99 follow-back scores for X accounts",
    "Runs locally on user's device for speed, privacy, and cost-effectiveness"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}