Twitter/X Followers benchmarks
Twitter's paid-verification era changed the benchmarks: legitimate organic-looking followers now cost 2-3x what they did in 2022.
Median retention
69%
Range: 21% – 88%
Median starting price
$4.99
Range: $1.99 – $22.99
Median delivery
1-3 days
37% same-day
Refill guarantee
58%
of reviewed services
What the numbers mean
Platform retention benchmarks dropped 14 percentage points after Twitter's verification overhaul. Services that inherited large unverified-account pools lost them to bulk suspensions. Prefer services that describe their account sourcing explicitly.
Top services this quarter
How we assessed this
8 services, 24 data points reviewed over Q1 2026, based on public data, vendor-advertised terms, published user reviews, and hands-on checks of signup and checkout. Retention reflects vendor-advertised 30-day figures. Delivery speed is the vendor-advertised time from checkout to first delivery. Price is the lowest advertised package.
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