How to Search Someone's Tweets for a Keyword

To search someone’s tweets for a keyword, type from:username keyword into the X search bar and open the Latest tab. For example, from:NASA "black hole" returns NASA’s posts containing the phrase black hole. Add since: and until: when you remember roughly when they posted it.

This is the fastest way to find a specific tweet from someone. It builds on how to search tweets from a specific user.

How Do You Search Someone’s Tweets for a Word?

You search someone’s tweets for a word by pairing from: and their handle with the word, then choosing the Latest tab. Listed below are the 4 steps.

1. Log in to x.com or the X app (X Help Center).
2. Type from:username and the word: from:NASA mars.
3. Press Enter.
4. Open Latest to see every match, newest first.

In the Advanced search form, enter the word under Words and the handle under From these accounts; X writes the same query (X Help Center).

How Do You Find a Specific Tweet From Someone?

To find a specific tweet from someone, search their handle with the most unusual word you remember, in quotes, inside a date window. Rare words cut results faster than common ones, and quotes stop X from correcting the spelling (twitter-advanced-search reference).

from:username "unusual word" since:2023-01-01 until:2024-01-01

If the post contained a link, a photo or a video, add the matching filter: filter:links, filter:images or filter:videos.

Examples: Searching Someone’s Tweets for Keywords

These examples cover the keyword searches people run on one account most often. Replace the handle, words and dates.

Goal	Query
One word	from:username word
An exact phrase	from:username "exact phrase"
Either of two words	from:username (word1 OR word2)
A word, without another	from:username word -otherword
A hashtag they used	from:username #hashtag
A word in their replies only	from:username word filter:replies
A word in their original posts only	from:username word -filter:replies
A word in a given year	from:username word since:2020-01-01 until:2021-01-01
A word in their popular posts	from:username word min_faves:500

The operators in this table are explained in the Twitter advanced search operators reference, and the date combination in how to search someone’s tweets by date.

How Do You Search Someone’s Replies to Another Account?

To search someone’s replies to another account for a keyword, combine from:, to: and the word. from:user1 to:user2 refund returns user1’s replies to user2 that mention refunds. More reply searches are in how to search Twitter replies.

Why Doesn’t Keyword Search Find Someone’s Tweet?

Keyword search misses someone’s tweet when the word you remember differs from the post, the account is protected or suspended, or the post was deleted. Private and suspended accounts are not in the search index (twitter-advanced-search reference). Listed below are the 3 fixes.

1. Search a synonym with OR: from:username (car OR vehicle).
2. Drop the keyword and search the account in a tight date window.
3. Check whether the account changed its handle.

The full troubleshooting list is in why X search can’t find an old tweet.

How to Search Many Accounts for a Keyword With apidojo

X search runs one query at a time, so apidojo’s Tweet Scraper V2 on Apify runs the same keyword across several accounts and saves every match to one file. Each query goes in searchTerms, written as you would type it on X.

{
  "searchTerms": [
    "from:NASA \"black hole\"",
    "from:ESA \"black hole\"",
    "from:esa_webb \"black hole\""
  ],
  "sort": "Latest"
}

It costs $0.40 per 1,000 tweets. Queries that return fewer than 50 tweets run on Twitter Scraper Unlimited instead (Apify). See the apidojo Twitter Scraper.