How to find someone's first tweet
Finding the very first post of a public figure, a brand, or even your own account can be a fun trip down memory lane. However, scrolling manually to the bottom of an active Twitter feed is nearly impossible due to rate limits and infinite scrolling.
Our First Tweet Finder tool automates this process by instantly generating an Advanced Search query that targets the very beginning of an account's history. Just enter their handle, and you'll be redirected to X.com showing their oldest indexed posts.
The Manual Method (Advanced Search)
If you prefer to do this manually without a tool, you can use X's Advanced Search operators. You will need to know roughly when the account was created.
- Go to the X search bar.
- Type:
from:username since:YYYY-MM-DD until:YYYY-MM-DD - For example, to find Elon Musk's first tweets from June 2009, you would search:
from:elonmusk since:2009-06-01 until:2009-07-01
While effective, guessing the exact join date and typing out dates manually can be tedious.
Why use the TimeSkip Extension?
This free web tool is great for a quick, one-off search. However, if you are a marketer, researcher, or journalist who frequently needs to navigate historical tweets, you need TimeSkip.
TimeSkip is a Chrome Extension that injects a sleek date-picker widget directly onto every X profile. It auto-detects the account's join date and lets you jump to any month and year in just two clicks, saving you hours of manual searching.