# backtweets

> Search public social conversations, and trace where any link travels. Paste a term to see public posts and discussions across 20 social networks; paste a URL to see its archive history, the sites linking to it, who mentions it, the posts sharing it, and how visible it is in AI answers. Free, no account.

Important: BackTweets covers publicly discoverable posts that it has independently validated. It is not a firehose, not a complete archive, and not real time. "AI visibility" means a disclosed sample of AI answer engines - not private prompt volume, not a census of what everyone asks AI, and not market share. Every figure exposes the sample behind it.

## Start here
- [Search](https://backtweets.com/search?q=): One box. A term returns public social posts; a URL returns its full link trace.
- [Trace a link](https://backtweets.com/): Paste any article, page or domain.
- [Agent Trends](https://backtweets.com/trends): What AI answer engines are citing now.
- [Trending links](https://backtweets.com/trends/links): Links gaining citations and mentions.

## What is covered
- Social networks searched: X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Bluesky, Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, Substack, Medium, Hacker News, GitHub Discussions, Product Hunt, Pinterest, Tumblr, Facebook, Mastodon, Quora.
- Link trail: archived snapshots, referring domains and who links to a page, public mentions (Hacker News, Reddit, Wikipedia), and the social posts sharing it.
- AI answers: share of AI mentions across a disclosed engine sample, including ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews.

## Transparency
- [Coverage](https://backtweets.com/coverage): Exactly what we can and cannot see, per data source.
- [Methodology](https://backtweets.com/methodology): How data is discovered, validated and reported.
- [FAQ](https://backtweets.com/faq): Direct answers about sources, limits and what each number means.

## For agents and developers
- [AI catalog](https://backtweets.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json): Agentic Resource Discovery manifest.
- [OpenAPI](https://backtweets.com/api/v1/openapi.json): Machine-readable API description.
- [API & feeds](https://backtweets.com/developers/api): Read API under /api/v1 plus RSS/JSON/XML feeds.

## About
- [About](https://backtweets.com/about)
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