How to Search Tweets Linking to a Website or Domain

To search tweets that link to a website on X, type url: followed by the domain into the search bar, for example url:github.com, and open the Latest tab. Add -from:yourbrand to see only links shared by other people. Replace any hyphen in the domain with an underscore: url:t_mobile.com.

The url: operator is the fastest way to see who shares your content, a competitor’s content or a news article. It sits with the word operators in the Twitter advanced search operators reference. This guide is one of the techniques in how to search tweets by keyword.

How Do You Find Tweets Linking to a Site?

You find tweets linking to a site by searching url: with the domain, with no space after the colon. Listed below are the 3 steps.

1. Type url:yourdomain.com.
2. Press Enter.
3. Open Latest for every post linking to the domain, newest first.

url: matches the full address behind X’s shortened links, so posts appear even though X displays the link as a t.co short URL (twitter-advanced-search reference).

Domain Search Examples

These domain searches cover the link-tracking jobs people run most often. Replace the domains, handles and dates.

Goal	Query
Every post linking to a site	url:example.com
Links shared by others only	url:example.com -from:examplebrand
Links to a hyphenated domain	url:t_mobile.com
Links to one page or section	url:example.com/blog
Popular posts linking to a site	url:example.com min_retweets:20
Links to several sites	url:site1.com OR url:site2.com
Links in a date range	url:example.com since:2026-01-01 until:2026-02-01
A competitor’s shared articles	url:competitor.com -from:competitor
Links without media	url:example.com -filter:media

How Do You Find Who Shared Your Article?

To find who shared one article, search a distinctive part of its address with url:, such as the slug. url:example.com/blog/my-article-slug narrows the results to that page. If the slug contains hyphens, use underscores in the query. Popular shares can be ranked with the thresholds in how to search tweets by likes, reposts and replies.

How Do You Find Posts With Any Link?

To find posts with any link rather than one domain, use filter:links; remove media with -filter:media to keep posts with a web link only. filter:links also counts photos and videos as links, which is why the second filter helps (twitter-advanced-search reference). Media filters are covered in how to search only tweets with images, videos or links.

Why Does url: Return No Results?

url: returns no results when the domain contains a hyphen typed as a hyphen, when there is a space after the colon, or when no one has shared the domain recently. Rewrite hyphens as underscores, remove the space, and add since: with an earlier date to search further back.

How to Track Shared Links With apidojo

apidojo’s Tweet Scraper V2 on Apify collects every post linking to a domain, with the author and engagement for each, so you can rank who drives the most attention to your site. The actor’s documentation shows link searches such as from:TechCrunch filter:links (Apify).

{
  "searchTerms": ["url:example.com -from:examplebrand -filter:retweets"],
  "sort": "Latest"
}

It costs $0.40 per 1,000 tweets. See the apidojo Twitter Scraper.