The best Twitter analytics tool for founders (2026)

LinkIntel is an MCP server. Connect X once and it reads your recent original posts and their metrics every day. Your assistant gets them before it drafts, along with X's open-source ranking weights (read daily, with commit links) and any public posts you chose as references. You never open a dashboard: you ask for a draft and it cites what worked for you.

The catch: it only helps if you write with an assistant that supports MCP. It is read-only, so it cannot post or schedule, it is built around one person's own X account, and it does not predict reach. It is also not the only MCP that shows an assistant your own metrics, since Buffer's and OpenTweet's do too. What LinkIntel adds is the ranking weights, references you choose and daily snapshots kept as a record.

X's post activity dashboard is a free feature, reached through analytics.x.com or an ads account. It shows impressions, engagements and engagement rate per post, plus retention and completion rates for video, and defaults to the last 28 days. You can export post-level data as CSV, up to 30 days at a time and 3,000 posts per export.

The catch is the one this whole guide is about: it is something you read, not something an assistant reads for you, and it has no ranking weights or references. If you do not draft with an assistant, this is the right place to start and you may never need to leave it.

Buffer's free plan includes Insights with 30-day history; paid plans lift that and add advanced analytics. Its X analytics list impressions, engagements, engagement rate, likes, reposts, replies, follower counts, best day and type to post, top hashtags and exportable reports.

Its MCP server can pull post analytics into an assistant, even on Free, though metrics refresh once a day and requests count against your plan's API limit (3,000 a month on Free). Buffer says reach and impressions appear only when every channel in the filter supports them. If you also want a queue, Buffer is better value than LinkIntel; where they overlap is giving an assistant your results.

Its pricing page lists "Complete X Analytics" on every plan. The analytics page covers followers, impressions and profile visits, and the homepage lists top tweets by followers, engagement and reach, daily follower growth, and detailed tweet analytics with clicks.

The catch: it is X-only and priced as a growth tool, so you are also paying for scheduling, automation and a viral tweet library. Its pricing, homepage and analytics pages mention no MCP, so the numbers stay in its dashboard rather than reaching an assistant.

Fedica goes much further than LinkIntel on X analysis. It lists follower growth and decline, unfollower tracking, bot detection, a city-level follower map with demographics, best times from your audience's activity and top interactors. Advanced engagement metrics such as impressions and link clicks start on Grow, not on the cheaper Publish plan. It says it uses the official X Enterprise API.

The catch for a founder is volume: this is a lot to read, and I found no MCP server, so none of it reaches an assistant. Choose it if you want to study your audience yourself.

Typefully's plan cards put X analytics on Creator and up, not Free. Its analytics group lists Detailed Metrics, Profile Conversion Rate, Tweeting Streaks and CSV download.

The catch: its MCP help article does not mention analytics or post metrics, so an assistant connected only to Typefully is not described as seeing how your posts performed. I would choose it for the editor and queue, and treat the analytics as a bonus.