Xtracticle

Deleted Tweet Tracker

Watch a public X (Twitter) account and keep a copy of every post it deletes. Try it free for 14 days: type the @username, then enter your e-mail.

Tip: change x.com to xtracticle.com in any post link to open it here.

A deleted tweet can only be seen if someone kept a copy before it disappeared. Xtracticle Watch is that copy. Add a public account and Xtracticle reads its newest posts every hour. When a post it has seen is later gone from X, you get the post’s text, date and media links, plus a Wayback Machine copy when one exists, in a private feed and a daily e-mail.

How to track an account’s deleted tweets

Start the free trial. Type the account’s @username above, enter your e-mail address in the Watch box under its archived posts and click the confirmation link we send. One account for 14 days: no card, no Xtracticle account, no X login.
Pick what you hear about. The link opens your trial page with a private RSS / JSON feed for your reader; choose deleted posts, new posts, or both. When something changes, a daily e-mail digest goes to the address you confirmed.
Keep watching with Pro. When the 14 days are over, the watch simply stops. Xtracticle Pro keeps it going and watches up to 5 accounts (2 on the lifetime plan). Payment is handled by Gumroad and your license key arrives by e-mail.

The same lookup lists what the Wayback Machine already archived for the account, so you can also see what was posted, and deleted, before you started watching.

What Watch catches, and what it can’t

Posts deleted after you add the account. Watch keeps a snapshot of the account’s ~40 newest posts and compares every hour. A post that vanishes is checked once more against X before it counts as deleted, so a slow timeline doesn’t trigger false alarms.
Not posts deleted before you started. For those, use the Deleted Tweet Finder, which searches the Wayback Machine.
Not posts deleted within minutes. A post that is published and deleted between two hourly checks is never seen.
Public accounts only. If an account goes private or is deactivated, the watch pauses and you get one notice saying so.
New posts, too. Set a watch to new or both and the same feed tells you when the account posts, without following it.

Xtracticle Watch or another tracker?

	Xtracticle Pro	Typical paid tracker
Price	$5 a month or $36 a year for 5 accounts · $59 once for 2	About $9 a month per account (TrackTweets, at the time of writing)
Free trial	14 days, 1 account, e-mail confirmation only, no card	Varies
Sign-up	None. A license key, no X login, nothing connected	Account and subscription
Alerts	Private RSS / JSON feed, daily e-mail digest	Varies
Past deletions	Full Wayback archive of the account (up to 1,500 posts) with CSV	Usually only from the day you start
Also included	Batch saves of 200 links, MCP / API key, PDFs without the credit line	—

See Xtracticle Pro and its prices. Saving posts, threads and Articles on the rest of the site stays free.

Who uses a deleted tweet tracker

Journalists and researchers who need a record of what a public figure, company or official account said, even if it is later removed.
Brand and community managers keeping an eye on competitors’ and partners’ announcements.
Anyone following a public dispute where posts tend to vanish after the fact.

Watch only reads what an account publishes openly, the same posts anyone can see on x.com. It never logs in to X and never sees private accounts. See the privacy page for what is stored and how to ask for an account to be excluded.

Learn more

Deleted Tweet Finder: search the Wayback Machine for an account’s archived posts, free.
How to see deleted tweets: every place a copy might exist, and what never works.
How to find tweets on the Wayback Machine: manual searches and wildcard URLs.

Privacy

No account, no login, no upload. Xtracticle fetches the public post on demand through the open-source FxTwitter API and builds your file in your browser. We don't store the posts you extract. We use Google Analytics to count anonymous visits and downloads so we know which features matter. The source code is on GitHub.

Frequently asked questions

Can I get notified when someone deletes a tweet?

Yes. Add the public account to Xtracticle Watch (part of Xtracticle Pro). It checks the account every hour and, when a post it has seen is deleted, adds it to your private RSS feed and your daily e-mail digest with the post’s text.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. Watch one public account free for 14 days: type it above, enter your e-mail address and click the confirmation link we send. No card and no license key are needed, there is one trial per e-mail address, and nothing is charged: when the trial ends, the watch simply stops. To keep watching, or to watch up to 5 accounts, get Xtracticle Pro.

How fast does the tracker notice a deletion?

Accounts are checked about once an hour. The feed updates on the next check after the deletion; the e-mail digest goes out once a day.

Can it show tweets deleted before I started tracking?

Watch can’t, because it never saw them. Use the free Deleted Tweet Finder, which lists posts the Wayback Machine archived, including ones deleted later.

Do I need to log in with my X account?

No. Xtracticle never asks for your X login. Pro is unlocked with a license key that Gumroad e-mails you after payment.

How many accounts can I track?

Five public accounts on the monthly or yearly plan, two on the one-time lifetime plan. You can swap accounts at any time on the Pro page.

Does it work for private accounts?

No. Protected posts are not public, so they can’t be read. If a watched account turns private, the watch pauses and you get one notice.