Overview The tweet command fetches a specific tweet by ID or URL and displays it along with its replies. This is useful for viewing tweet threads, reading conversations, and analyzing engagement.
Syntax twitter tweet TWEET_ID [OPTIONS]
Arguments The tweet identifier. Can be either:
Numeric tweet ID: 1234567890123456789
Full tweet URL: https://twitter.com/user/status/1234567890123456789
Shortened URL: The ID will be extracted automatically
Options Maximum number of replies to fetch. The original tweet is always included. Alias: -n
Output tweet and replies as JSON instead of formatted display.
Examples By tweet ID
By URL
Limit replies
More replies
JSON output
# View a tweet using its numeric ID twitter tweet 1234567890123456789
Output The command displays:
Main tweet - Detailed view with full text, author info, and engagement metricsReplies section - A formatted table of replies (if any)
Example Output 🔐 Getting Twitter cookies... 🐦 Fetching tweet 1234567890123456789... ✅ Fetched 21 tweets in 1.2s ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ @elonmusk • Elon Musk ║ ║ ✓ Verified ║ ╠══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣ ║ Excited to announce a major update to our platform! ║ ║ Check out the latest feature updates. ║ ║ ║ ║ 🔗 https://example.com ║ ╠══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣ ║ ❤️ 12.3K 🔄 2.1K 💬 456 📊 1.2M views ║ ║ 🕐 2024-03-09 14:32:00 UTC ║ ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ 💬 Replies: 💬 Replies — 20 ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┓ ┃ Author ┃ Reply ┃ ❤️ ┃ 🔄 ┃ 💬 ┃ ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━╇━━━━━━╇━━━━━━┩ │ @sama │ This is amazing!... │ 234 │ 12 │ 8 │ │ @karpathy │ Looking forward to... │ 567 │ 34 │ 15 │ └─────────────┴────────────────────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┘
JSON Output Structure [ { "id" : "1234567890123456789" , "text" : "Excited to announce a major update..." , "author" : "elonmusk" , "author_name" : "Elon Musk" , "created_at" : "2024-03-09T14:32:00.000Z" , "likes" : 12300 , "retweets" : 2100 , "replies" : 456 , "views" : 1200000 , "url" : "https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1234567890123456789" }, { "id" : "1234567890123456790" , "text" : "This is amazing!" , "author" : "sama" , "is_reply" : true , "reply_to" : "1234567890123456789" } ]
The first element in the JSON output is always the main tweet. Subsequent elements are replies, ordered by relevance or recency.
You can extract tweet IDs from URLs easily. The command automatically handles both formats: # These are equivalent: twitter tweet 1234567890123456789 twitter tweet https://twitter.com/user/status/1234567890123456789
Use Cases
Read threads - View entire conversation threads and repliesAnalyze engagement - See which replies got the most engagementContent research - Gather tweet data including replies for analysisMonitor discussions - Track conversations around important tweetsQuote extraction - Export tweet text and replies for documentation
There are several ways to get a tweet ID:
From the URL - Click “Share” → “Copy link”, the ID is in the URLFrom search results - Use twitter search --json and extract IDsFrom timeline - Use twitter feed --json and find the tweet ID
Example: Finding and viewing a tweet # Search for a tweet and extract its ID twitter search "from:elonmusk latest announcement" --json | jq '.[0].id' # Then view it with replies twitter tweet < id_from_abov e >
search - Search for tweets by keywordfeed - View your timelineuser - View a user’s profile 