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slater
Two tiny bits of feedback:

- Don't link directly to an account's avatar image. None of them load for me, because of cross-domain blocking (macOS, Firefox)

- Make the tables sortable by clicking on table headers

mtmail
Took me a while to realize there are multiple tables.
edgarasben
Fixed it! Each group meant to have only top 10 accounts. Will probably add "Show more" button, to reveal more accounts in a group.
edgarasben
Thank you for the feedback! Is this specific to your browser? I would like to avoid hosting the images myself, at least for now.

For the sorting, good idea!

slater
Might be UBlock Origin, not sure.
edgarasben
Yeah probably some browser plugin. Referring to external images should be quite common on the web?
slater
Frowned upon, tho ;)
edgarasben
Do you mind testing if it's better now?:)
slater
Works! Now, table sorting... >:]
lqcfcjx
this looks interesting. just curious how did you collect this data? i believe it's ridiculously expensive to use X api.
edgarasben
It's public data, so it's quite limited. But even with limited data it's possible to be a little creative:)
dankwizard
1 - is this scanning every account? i thought X did some fancy stuff where an API hit would only ping a random ~1-5% of the total base. the 100k->1m tier list looks especially wrong

2 - whats time on growth? is it +x% in 24 hours / what time frame?

3 - cool

edgarasben
1 - good question! using public data only for now, so I have to add usernames manually, but I also have an automatic scaling mechanism, where I discover "recommended" usernames for each user.

2 - for now it's daily only, last 24hours. Once I have more data I will display 7 days, 30 days and 365 days switcher.

3 - thnx :D

tomaslau
1. Awesome.

2. I suggest you add a short paragraph or a button to explain the methodology. I see you answered these questions in some comments already, but I'm sure other visitors may have similar questions.

3. Well done!