81
Quality Score
Excellent
X
✍️ bumetric analysis
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X is an iOS app from X Corp. in the News category, currently rated 4.6★ across 10,722,091 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 81: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a News app, that means strong product-market fit. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K/mo
Founder-confirmed monthly revenue
BIG tier
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BU Investment Matrix
Weak · 49/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
6.4
Product Quality
7.7
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
6.0
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
5.2
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.59★ across 10,538,160 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Elevated — scam/fraud mentions detected, rating drift -1.83 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12.6M-$22.4M.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (10,722,091 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| premiumREVIEW | +$2,200 | |
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Mature app (16y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (41 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 429 MB🔞 17+📱 iOS 15.0+🔖 v11.92🔄 updated 6d ago🌐 AR, BN, BG, CA, HR +36📂 News💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2009 (16y old)
📝 About this app
Welcome to X (formerly known as Twitter), your trusted digital town square where conversations unfold in real time, and the world connects through breaking news, live events, podcasts, and everything in between.
Whether you're passionate about sports, tech, music, or politics, X is your front-row seat to what’s happening across the globe.
X isn’t just another social media app, it’s the ultimate destination for staying well informed, sharing ideas, and building communities.… View full description on the official store →
Whether you're passionate about sports, tech, music, or politics, X is your front-row seat to what’s happening across the globe.
X isn’t just another social media app, it’s the ultimate destination for staying well informed, sharing ideas, and building communities.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v11.92
We made improvements and squashed bugs so X is even better for you.
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
4 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-05
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Shipped update — v11.91 → v11.92
2026-05
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Shipped update — v11.90 → v11.91
2026-05
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Shipped update — v? → v11.90
2026-04
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First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
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ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #10Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
social network·#10🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
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Voice of Customer
Based on 900 reviews across 9 markets● 42% positive · ● 26% neutral · ● 32% negative · Rating drift: -1.83★ (declining — recent 50: 2.76★ vs lifetime: 4.59★)
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇮🇳 IN
+0.18
🇺🇸 US
+0.13
🇨🇦 CA
+0.09
🇫🇷 FR
+0.06
🇧🇷 BR
+0.06
🇯🇵 JP
+0.01
🇬🇧 GB
-0.04
🇩🇪 DE
-0.17
🇦🇺 AU
-0.19
Top praise themes
elon musk ×24 social media ×23 free speech ×21 thanks elon ×14 thank elon ×14 freedom speech ×12 breaking news ×8 since elon ×6
Top complaint themes
age verification ×19 elon musk ×14 free speech ×10 não consigo ×10 doesn work ×9 account suspended ×9 social media ×8 please fix ×8
Risk signals
Bug mentions: 4% Fraud / scam mentions: 0.6%
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.50828★ | 324,893 | 4.50828★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.79437★ | 1,789,264 | 4.79437★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.50035★ | 805,141 | 4.50035★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.42418★ | 366,776 | 4.42418★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.57361★ | 856,532 | 4.57361★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.5671★ | 1,424,155 | 4.5671★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.63821★ | 897,390 | 4.63821★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.34168★ | 4,470,721 | 4.34168★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.58625★ | 10,709,029 | 4.58625★ this version |
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ONE-TIME · BUILD💰 Estimated build cost
$210K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $160K – $285K
$25K · MVP floor$100K · indie scale$500K+ · studio build
📈Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦Asset bundle (429 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
| ⚙16.6y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$99K |
Total estimate$210K
👥 Estimated audience size
900.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
27.0M
Daily active
12.0M
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 📅16.6y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
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Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React NativeFlutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦App bundle size | 429 MB |
| 🏷Category context | News |
| 📦Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-05-17 · 6 days ago
0 · Active50 · At risk100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅6 days since last update | Active development |
VerdictActive
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- X
- Developer
- X Corp.
- Bundle ID
- com.atebits.Tweetie2
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 17+
- Languages
- AR, BN, BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, FI, FR, DE, EL, GU, HE, HI, HU, ID, IT, JA, KN, KO, MS, MR, NB, FA, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SK, ES, SV, TA, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
Company
- Website
- x.com
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $8.0M ($1.8M – $8.0M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $96.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $298/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#1 /100 🇨🇦#1 /100 🇧🇷#1 /100 🇮🇳#1 /100 🇬🇧#2 /100 🇯🇵#2 /100 🇦🇺#2 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
The iOS app "X" by X Corp. is estimated to generate approximately $8 million in monthly revenue in the US, based on recent estimates. Reported monthly figures for the app have ranged from a peak of $1.8 million in Q2 2025 to the current estimate of $8 million, projecting an annual revenue of around $96 million.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, Adapty
📈Ratings growth10,722,091 ratings+12% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (8 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇺🇸US#1 /100
🇨🇦CA#1 /100
🇧🇷BR#1 /100
🇮🇳IN#1 /100
🇬🇧GB#2 /100
🇯🇵JP#2 /100
🇦🇺AU#2 /100
🇫🇷FR#4 /100
🇩🇪DE#7 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#1 now · best #1 · worst #1
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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Lead-app heavy — top app contributes 76%
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for X: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
9 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does X make per month?▾
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, X earns approximately $298/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is X profitable?▾
With estimated build cost $210K and monthly revenue $298, X looks well below break-even — current monthly revenue is much smaller than the estimated build cost. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does X have?▾
Estimated audience: ~900.5M lifetime downloads, ~27.0M monthly active users, and ~12.0M daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like X?▾
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What is X built with?▾
Our heuristic places X on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is X still actively maintained?▾
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 6 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
When was X last updated?▾
X last shipped a new version on 2026-05-17 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes X?▾
X is published by X Corp. on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is X's BU Score?▾
X has a BU Score of 81/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.