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Frequently asked questions
What is BackTweets?
Search a term and BackTweets shows the public social conversation around it - posts and discussions across 20 networks including X, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube and Hacker News. Paste a link instead and it traces where that link travels: when it was first archived, which sites link to it, who mentions it, and how visible it is when AI assistants answer questions.
Where do the social results come from?
Public posts on the networks themselves. BackTweets finds publicly discoverable posts, independently validates every one against its own rules, and reads its details from the source post. What you see is an individual public post, never a profile or a feed page.
Is this every post on every network?
No. It is publicly discoverable content that BackTweets has validated - not a firehose, not a complete archive, and not real time. Private accounts, deleted posts and networks that restrict public access are invisible to us, and a brand-new post can take a while to become findable.
What do I get when I paste a link?
A link trace: archived snapshots going back to the page's earliest capture, a backlink profile with referring domains and the sites most recently linking to it, public mentions on places like Hacker News, Reddit and Wikipedia, the social posts sharing it, and its share of AI mentions where we track it.
Where does the AI-visibility data come from?
From an aggregated AI-mentions dataset that samples how AI assistants answer real questions across engines including ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. We read how often brands, pages and domains are mentioned and cited, then turn those counts into share of voice. We only measure what is observable in AI answers - never private prompt volume.
What does share of voice mean?
An entity's share of AI mentions within a topic: how often a brand, page or domain is mentioned or cited in AI answers, divided by the topic total. It is a share of AI mentions - not clicks, not traffic, and not market share.
Can I track my own site?
Yes. Paste any URL or domain and you get its trace straight away - history, backlinks, mentions and the posts sharing it - plus its share of voice in AI answers for any tracked topic where it appears, with the coverage behind the number. Running a link costs nothing and needs no account.
Does a search cost anything or need an account?
No. BackTweets is free to search and needs no login.