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Early has
names.
Every account on X has a first follower, a tenth, a fiftieth. X will not show them to you. ante pages the whole list back to the beginning, hands you the people who were there before the chart moved, and lets you watch what they follow next.
- 001every list starts at the very first follower
- 200earliest accounts kept per project
- 0x logins or wallet connects asked of you
By the time it reaches your timeline, it is late.
/ who follows first
The first accounts to follow a project are rarely random. Founders' circles, funds, snipers, people with a record of being right before it was obvious.
/ why you cannot see them
X lists followers newest first and stops loading after a few screens. On any account that has grown, the first fifty are buried under everything that came later.
/ what ante does
It pages the entire list back to follower № 001, keeps the tail, and gives it to you as a clean, exportable list. Then it shows what those same accounts started following this week.
A first fifty is never just fifty accounts.
type 01
The first one
Follower № 001. A co-founder, the founder's other account, or the one friend who was told.
type 02
The sniper
Follows new projects within hours, every week. Small account, frightening hit rate.
type 03
The whale
Large, quiet, follows rarely. When one sits in a first fifty, that is the signal.
type 04
The sleeper
Silent for months, then a single follow. Often somebody's second account.
type 05
The bot farm
Five near-identical accounts in a row. Worth spotting before you trust a follower count.
- 01
First 50
Page any account back to follower № 001 and keep the earliest 25 to 200. You see the cost and the time before anything runs.
- 02
Recent followings
What a sharp account started following this week, newest first. The cheapest way to find a project while it is still small.
- 03
Compare
Lay several projects side by side and surface the accounts that were early to more than one of them. Once is luck. Three times is a person to know.
- 04
Watchlist
Keep the ones who keep being early, with a note on where you found them. One click back into their first fifty or their latest follows.
You pay for the digging.
Every plan has all the reading you want. What differs is how far you can dig in a month, counted in followers scanned: opening the first fifty of an account with 40k followers scans 40k. Anything already in your files is free to open again.
Starter
For checking a few projects a week.
$19/ month
500k followers scanned
- All four instruments
- Projects up to 50k followers
- 300 followings checks a month
- CSV export
Pro
For people who do this every day.
$49/ month
1.5M followers scanned
- Everything in Starter
- Projects up to 250k followers
- 1,500 followings checks a month
Max
For funds and research desks.
$129/ month
5M followers scanned
- Everything in Pro
- Projects up to 1M followers
- 5,000 followings checks a month
need more in a busy month? $10 adds 500k followers scanned.
ante is invite-only while it is in private beta. request access
Public X data, read through a third-party data provider. ante never asks for your X login, and the accounts you look up are not notified in any way.
No. X does not publish follow dates. What it does keep is the order, and that is what you get: № 001 followed before № 002, and both of them before everybody else.
As exact as X's own. Suspended and deleted accounts drop out of it, so on an old account № 001 means the earliest follower that still exists.
Any size, but the whole follower list has to be paged, so time and cost grow with the account. You see both before a search runs. Small and mid-size accounts, where being early matters most, resolve in seconds to minutes.
No. ante shows who followed what, and in which order. What you make of that is yours.
Request access below. Invites go out in small batches, and a code unlocks the tool on the spot.
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