How to See Comments on Twitter/X
Where replies to your posts appear, why some are hidden or ranked down, and how to find the ones the app does not show you.
Replies under a post
On X a comment is a reply. Tap a post. The responses are loaded in a list below the original text. You also see no dedicated comments panel. The same stack used in the desktop and app: Original post being first, then replies.
To view a post's comments, access your profile -> Posts -> Touch the Post. Any post fo a similar kind from the timeline, a search result orthe notification can work on that same path. That list is your conversation for that post
The replies are also on the profile of whoever wrote them. A comment you made on another person's post shows up in your Replies tab, not Posts tab. There are two places a reply exists: Under the post to which it replies, and on the author's Replies tab.
Ranking and collapsed replies
The reply list is in reverse chronological order. X ranks it. And replies from accounts you follow and verified accounts naturally move closer to the top. Replies with lower scores — those rated low quality — sink towards the bottom and frequently disappear. A conversation that appears shallow generally will have additional replies capsulated behind a Show game responses control at the base of the stack.
If you want all of the comments on a post, scroll to the bottom and reveal all Show more replies links. Do this on the site and in the app. The first screen isn't the complete set, rather it's just the ranked subset. The same post looks quiet; people miss replies. NOTE: The replies that are missing are still public. They are available to anyone who expands the thread.
The reshuffling of ranking as new replies come in. A reply that could have been collapsed in the morning will sink to the bottom of the visible stack later, or vice versa. Do not trust a one time scan — recheck and review a busy post
Mentions filter
For responses directed at you, go to Notifications & change from All to Mentions. Mentions displays posts that mention you, and almost all first-level replies to your posts. That is the closest that X gives you to it own single inbox of comments.
Consider the screen as a container Newest items sit at the top. Touch a mention to dive right into the parent post, and subsequently the rest of that thread. From their you have the option to reply, like or visit the profile of the author. Mentions is a real time feed of recent mentions not an exhaustive database. Newer items come in, older ones scroll off. One month of the last year will not stay here anymore.
Gaps in Mentions
Mentions is also hit-or-miss at surfacing replies to your replies somewhere down in a thread. If in your reply included someone, and someone else replied to you two levels down — that nested reply might never show up inside Mentions. You only see it if you click on the original post and follow the thread through.
Accounts that are muted or blocked have no notifications whatsoever. You will never learn that a reply was there and it has been hidden. If you muted someone during a fight, any future comments on your posts disappear from Mentions and often from the ranked reply list too. You can also temporarily unmute them if you need the bigger picture of a single conversation.
That filter also depends on whether the other person used your handle. A response that does not refer to you remains below your message. Mentions will not list it. For those, open up the actual post.
Profile Replies tab
A Replies tab appears on your profile. It simply aggregates everything that you replied to someone else, in descending chronological order. It does not mention replies that someone left on your posts. Inbound comments come in through Posts plus Mentions. Use Replies for outbound ones.
Scroll it. Replies are terse, threaded and best forgotten about. They remain public and attached to your name. If that post has not been deleted, a response from years ago still shows up right here and also shows up underneath the original article. And this is where most of the stupid things people regret posting actually reside: assiduously written, in the heat of an argument, and within sight reach of the permanent account.
On this tab, though, it can be a little more difficult to contextualize the reply if a parent post was removed or an account suspended. The text is still yours and has not been removed. The thread around it might be.
Nested thread replies
A reply can be a reply to another. X places them under the parent by connecting them with a line. Mobile — tap a reply, expanding its children Often the children also indicate another Show more controll when the branch is longer, on the web.
Mentions fails with deep threads. So OK a comment on your comment on someone else's post is still in the same conversational transaction but isn't guaranteed to get into Mentions. The only trustable look is seeing the original post with all replies expanded (all Show more replies tapped), each nested branch opened,
Reopen the most popular post more than once if you are watching. New replies come from below after you exit. Ranking moves items. You open them up only if you decide to stay on a certain part of the kernel and thats exactly why we can leave Nested branches collapsed! If you just check the initial screen underneath the post, you are missing a bunch of a long thread.
Downloaded archive
X allows you to request your archive for download under the settings section. It stores your posts and replies. Its the complete list of replies that you have written including replies that no longer easily appear on the Replies tab as the parent post was deleted or the account has been suspended.
Sure, inbound replies from other people also don't allow you to archive it the same way. You see when those are present and they exist under each post and in Mentions. When someone deletes their reply, it disappears from your post. The archive will not rewrite comments from others.
Use the archive for your own reply history: the volume, old arguments, replies that only make sense in a thread you can no longer recall. It stings in the face but otherwise it is not a webpage: Parse it using a tool designed for that file
Date-based cleanup
Hand-reviewing replies is the most difficult aspect of a history. These are short, multiple, and out of context on the Replies tab. All of them were in your archive. TweetSweep works from that file. It treats replies and reposts as first-class, alongside posts, meaning you can delete a whole argumentative month instead of having to scour through your comments for the ones you no longer back.
Toss the archive on, specify the time period for removal and select replies. When you delete replies they will no longer appear in your Replies tab and also not on the threads they are part of — if the parent posts are still alive. Run a visual inspection first on X: the Replies tab combined with some of the top-level tweets. Then trial the archive for the volume you are unable to scroll. Date-based selection is the point. You are not searching for a single sentence, but clearing a window of time.