Can't Read Your Footprint Report? 10 Common Questions

The first time you get a digital footprint report, the 0-100 score, a row of risk labels, and red or yellow marks can be confusing. Below are the ten most common questions, clearing the most puzzling parts in one pass.

1. How is the 0-100 health score calculated?

Lower means riskier. The system weights the quantity and severity of privacy clues in your tweets (phone, email, location, sensitive topics). It is not a simple count.

2. What risk labels exist?

Four common types: phone, email, location, sensitive topic. Each maps to a different real-world risk level.

3. Why are some tweets red and others yellow?

Red is high risk, such as directly exposed phone numbers. Yellow is medium risk, such as general sensitive topics. Color marks handling priority, not a severity ranking.

4. Does the score relate to tweet count?

It does, but more posts do not automatically mean a lower score. One tweet with a phone number harms more than a hundred ordinary posts.

5. Will deleting red tweets raise the score immediately?

Yes, but only if the post is truly removed from X servers, not just hidden locally. See how to verify after deletion.

6. Does the report read my private tweets?

The report is based on the X archive you upload and only processes data on your own machine. It does not call any online interface to read new content.

7. Are Chinese and English reports the same?

Core conclusions match, but the risk keyword libraries cover Chinese and English separately, and the detail page offers a bilingual view.

8. Does the score change daily?

As long as you post nothing new and do not re-upload the archive, the score stays stable. Re-uploading refreshes it.

9. Can I clean only one label type?

Yes. The check tool filters by label, for example deleting only location-tagged tweets, following the idea in conditional deletion.

10. Can I export the report for colleagues or family?

You can export, but the report contains your privacy clues. Back up first and share carefully, or send only the summary score.

Next step

Reading the report is only the first step. To see your history by risk label and clean it safely, visit digital-footprint-health.shop for a free on-device check with report, scoring, and cleanup in one flow.