Do you feel nostalgic when you come across one of your old photos or old tweets? At least I do. Most of us are so busy in our lives that we don’t have much time to reminisce about all the things we’ve done in the past and that includes all the tweets we’ve posted on our Twitter accounts. me. Do you remember the first tweet you ever made? Or the tweet with the most engagement? Well, that’s why you’re here. This guide has everything you need to know to find your old tweets without spending hours scrolling through your feed.
Method of finding old tweets on Twitter
Method 1 Advanced Twitter Search
This is the most common way to search for old tweets on Twitter by date. Here are the steps:
- Go to Twitter’s Advanced Search Page- https://twitter.com/search-advanced. You will see a popup where you have to scroll down until you see the ‘Date’ option at the bottom.
- Here you can add a specific date or a series of dates. Along with the date you can also narrow your search results with other advanced search options like-
- Words used in tweet
- Hashtags used in tweets
- Tweet from someone else’s account
- The number of replies, likes or retweets you received on that tweet
- If you are wondering how to find other people’s old tweets, you need to fill in the ‘Account’ section of the advanced search. Enter the Twitter account of the person who sent the tweet and also the account where the tweet was mentioned including the accounts tagged in the tweet.
- Once you’ve entered all the information you have about the old tweet you’re looking for, click ‘Search’ and Twitter will show you all related tweets.
Method-2 Using Twitter App Search
For this method, you just need to log in to your Twitter account in the app and then:
- Click the ‘Search’ button at the bottom of the screen.
- If you want to search Twitter by date, use this format: from: yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd
- If you want to search for other people’s tweets, use this format: “from:” and the user’s username; No need to use “@” when searching.
- If you are looking for a specific tweet keyword, you can add it after the username in the search box.
- To search for an old tweet using a hashtag, enter “#” and the hashtag you are looking for.
- To search for a tweet by a user that the tweet mentions, you need to enter “@” and the username that a particular user mentioned in an older tweet.
- You will also get several categories at the top, such as Top, Latest, Videos, Newspapers, Photos, etc; Click on the category you think the tweet you’re looking for belongs to.
Method 3 Request hosting from Twitter
Another great idea for finding your tweets is to request an archive of your tweets from Twitter. Twitter may provide you with a complete archive of all the tweets you’ve sent from your Twitter account that you can view; just follow the given instructions:
- Go to the ‘Settings’ section of Twitter- https://twitter.com/settings/account
- Under ‘Your Account’ you will find an option that says ‘Download your data store’
- You will then need to confirm your password to continue; press ‘Confirm’.
- Then click ‘Request Archive’ to request a ZIP file with all data stored.
- That’s all about how you can search your Twitter account’s old tweets using this method. However, it may take a few days for Twitter to prepare your archive, depending on the total number of tweets.
- You will get push notification whenever the archive is ready to share and you just need to go to https://twitter.com/settings/account and click ‘Download archive’.
abstract
If you want to read your old tweets, you can use Twitter’s advanced search method to search for tweets from a specific date. For this, you have several filters that you can choose from and narrow down the results. It’s also easy to find other people’s old tweets, just use the Advanced Search Accounts section where you have to mention all the Twitter accounts the tweet refers to.
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