How to Find Who Liked or Retweeted Your Tweet

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Last Updated: March 4, 2021 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to find out the usernames of people who've liked or retweeted your tweet on Twitter. If you have hundreds or thousands of likes and/or retweets, you may not see the entire user list due to Twitter limitations.

Method 1

Method 1 of 2:
Using a Phone or Tablet

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Open the Twitter app on your phone or tablet. It's the blue bird icon typically found on the home screen (iPhone/Android) or in the app drawer (Android).
- If you're not already signed in, follow the on-screen instructions to sign in now.
- If you don't already have the app, you can download it for free from the App Store or Play Store.
2
Tap your profile photo. It's at the top-left corner of the app. A menu will expand.

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3
Tap Profile. It's near the top of the menu.
4
Tap the tweet you want to check. This opens the tweet on its own page.
5
Tap Likes or Retweets under the tweet. This displays the list of people who've retweeted or liked your tweet.

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Method 2

Method 2 of 2:
Using a Computer

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Go to https://www.twitter.com in a web browser. If you're not already signed into your account, you should do so now.
2
Click Profile. It's in the menu that runs along the left side of Twitter. This displays your profile content and tweets.
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Click the tweet to want to check. This opens the tweet in its own page.
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Click Retweets or Likes below the tweet. This displays the list of people who've retweeted or liked your tweet.

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Community Q&A

Question

How can I view what they retweeted from my post?

Capturethemoment

Community Answer

Twitter offer their own search tool where you can follow the post. A third-party app might help, Backtweets is a great way to track certain links.
Question

Can I privately like a tweet?

Community Answer

No, all likes on tweets will be public.
Question

Why does it say 'no items' when I press both retweets and likes, even though it says people have liked it or retweeted it?

Jesús Diaz

Community Answer

Try to update your Twitter App. Updating new features of the app can help the app better performance and better service.
Question

How to find all people who retweeted a tweet? Clicking the retweet link gives me 79 people, when it says I had 285 retweets for this particular tweet.

Ronald Mugambi Pimson

Community Answer

Click the tweet and open it separate from your timeline, and click the number of retweets, it will display all the tweets, tweets with comments and tweets without comments
Question

If I am clicking like, it is liking my post instead of showing me the likers.

Ronald Mugambi Pimson

Community Answer

Twitter offer their own search tool where you can follow the post. A third-party app might help, You may be able to see who liked your tweets by using TweetDeck which is a social media dashboard application for the management of Twitter accounts.
Question

My tweet has been liked but shows no like activity?

Ronald Mugambi Pimson

Community Answer

If someone liked your tweet and their Twitter account is private, you won't be able to see who they are unless they have given you permission to follow them.
Question

Every time I followed each instructions, all that happens when I click on the like is adding another one... Any other ides?

Ronald Mugambi Pimson

Community Answer

Unless you've made your tweets private, you can see who liked your tweets by looking in your Twitter notifications.