How to Search Tweets by User using Google

It's possible to search for tweets made by a specific user on Twitter (also called "posts on X") using Google. For example, if we want to find all tweets about meteors tweeted by NASA's official twitter account, we would search for:

meteor site:twitter.com/nasa

Note: Twitter has changed domain names from twitter.com to x.com. It's possible that some tweets can only be found by searching for this new domain instead:

meteor site:x.com/nasa

This works because every tweet has a URL in the following format:

https://twitter.com/(username)/status/(tweet ID)

For example:

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1735036375630545220

NASA's username (or Twitter handle) is nasa, so all tweets from NASA start with twitter.com/nasa. Google's site: search operator filters results by how their URLs start. That's why the text code above works the way it does.

• See site: Search Operator on Google for other examples.

You can also search for tweets by NASA from inside Twitter, through Twitter's search box, e.g. by searching for meteor (from:nasa).