XCircle guides

Make your first circle

How to make a Twitter circle takes you from a public username to a saved PNG. It covers choosing people, changing the design, creating a share link, and what to try when a result is missing or incomplete.

Understand the picture

What a Twitter circle can show you explains the difference between a follower list and an interaction circle, what each ring means, and how to read a circle without assuming it tells the whole story of a relationship.

Look at the method

How XCircle works describes the public data sources, interaction weights, time decay, mutual conversation bonus, and the way cached results help when the data service is unavailable.

Three useful habits

Check the update time. A circle is a snapshot. A cached picture can still be useful, but its date matters if you are comparing it with something you made before.

Read the coverage note. A busy account may fill the sample with only a short period of activity. A quieter account can reach further back with fewer posts. Partial data can leave out people you expected to see.

Keep the PNG if you want it later. Share links work for seven days. Downloading the image gives you a copy you can save and post on your own terms.