How to Search Your Own Tweets (by Keyword, Date or Archive)

To search your own tweets on X, type from:yourhandle plus a keyword into the search bar, for example from:yourhandle vacation, and open the Latest tab. Add since: and until: to search a date range. For a complete, offline copy of every post you have made, download your X archive.

This guide covers the 3 ways to search your own posts: the search bar, the Advanced search form and your archive. It applies the account method from how to search tweets from a specific user to your own handle. Every operator this guide uses is listed in the Twitter advanced search operators reference.

How Do You Search Your Own Tweets on X?

You search your own tweets by adding from: and your handle, without the @ sign, to any search. Listed below are the 4 steps.

1. Log in to x.com or the X app (X Help Center).
2. Type from:yourhandle and the word you remember: from:yourhandle recipe.
3. Press Enter.
4. Open Latest to see every match in time order.

Your handle is the name after @ in your profile address, not your display name.

How Do You Search Your Own Tweets by Date?

To search your own tweets by date, add since: and until: after from:yourhandle. Your posts from 2019:

from:yourhandle since:2019-01-01 until:2020-01-01

since: includes its date and until: excludes it, so set until: one day after the last day you want (twitter-advanced-search reference). All date windows are explained in how to search tweets by date.

Searching Your Own Tweets: Examples

These searches cover the posts people look for in their own history most often. Replace the words and dates.

You want	Query
A post by keyword	from:yourhandle keyword
An exact phrase you wrote	from:yourhandle "exact phrase"
Posts from a year	from:yourhandle since:2019-01-01 until:2020-01-01
Your replies to someone	from:yourhandle to:theirhandle
Your posts with photos	from:yourhandle filter:images
Your most liked posts	from:yourhandle min_faves:50
Your posts that linked a site	from:yourhandle url:example.com
Your first posts	from:yourhandle until:2012-01-01

How Do You Search Your Own Tweets in Your X Archive?

Your X archive is a download of HTML and JSON files containing your profile, posts, media, followers and more, so you can search every post offline. Request it on the web under More, Settings and privacy, Your account, then Download an archive of your data, and confirm your password (X Help Center). Listed below are the 3 steps once the file arrives.

1. Download the .zip file from the email X sends, while logged in.
2. Unzip it and open the archive’s HTML file in a browser to browse and search your posts.
3. Search the posts file in the data folder with any text editor for exact words.

The archive is the reliable route when search misses a post; see why X search can’t find an old tweet.

Why Can’t You Find Your Own Tweet?

You can’t find your own tweet in search when your account is protected, the post was deleted, or the words you remember differ from what you wrote. Posts from protected accounts are not in public search results (twitter-advanced-search reference). Try a wider date window, a synonym with OR, or your archive.

How to Export Your Own Tweets With apidojo

Your X archive is free but arrives as a zip file; apidojo’s Tweet Scraper V2 on Apify exports your public posts directly as a spreadsheet, with likes, reposts and replies for each. Put your own query in searchTerms.

{
  "searchTerms": ["from:yourhandle -filter:retweets"],
  "sort": "Latest"
}

It costs $0.40 per 1,000 tweets. Developers reading their own account through the X API pay $0.001 per post as owned reads (X API pricing). See the apidojo Twitter Scraper.