Where a deleted post can still show up
Archives keep pages they captured before a deletion: the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and archive.today. Old posts were captured under twitter.com, so the finder checks that address as well as x.com. Our guide on how to see deleted tweets covers what still works.
On X, quote posts and replies are separate posts, and they usually stay up after the original goes. The finder builds the quoted_tweet_id: and conversation_id: searches for you, and a search of the author’s other posts that day, using the date in the post id. Our search operators guide explains each one.
Use it to check, not to republish
Checking whether a post existed is routine for journalists and researchers. Republishing other people’s deleted posts is a different matter, and X’s developer rules ask apps to remove posts their authors deleted. For your own posts, your X archive keeps recently deleted ones; open it with our Twitter archive viewer.