social-twitter
Wayback, twitter/x URLs
The Wayback Machine applied to twitter.com and x.com URLs, returning archived snapshots of tweets and profiles where they were crawled. You can check whether a specific tweet was captured and open the saved copy via replay links. It is among the more reliable ways to recover deleted tweets, though coverage is patchy and strongest for high-profile accounts.
Warum es nützlich ist & wie es funktioniert
The Wayback Machine has crawled twitter.com and x.com URLs since the platform's early days, so it is often the first place to check for a deleted tweet or a frozen copy of someone's profile page. You search by pasting the original tweet or profile URL, and the Wayback Machine shows you a calendar of available captures. Coverage is strongest for high-profile accounts that were crawled often; since X updated its crawling rules in 2023, newer captures are thinner. Echo links you to the Wayback Machine search so you can run the lookup there.
Was drinsteckt
Coverage is uneven and capture-dependent. The Wayback Machine holds over 800 billion web pages overall, but Twitter and X content represents a small fraction, weighted toward high-traffic accounts and years before 2023.
API-Zugang
https://archive.org/wayback/available?url= ; CDX http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=&output=json
Zugang
Freely reachable, no key, login, or captcha.