- What people mean by Twitter like history
- The short version
- How the like history feature has changed over time
- How to check your own like history
- Why you might not see someone else's likes
- Can you recover deleted or hidden likes
- Using likes sensibly if you manage a business account
- What to do if you want more privacy around your likes
- Frequently asked questions
X (formerly Twitter) does not let you see a full public like history anymore. Your own likes are visible to you in your profile's Likes tab, but others can only see likes if the account owner has not hidden them, and X has removed and restored this feature several times. There is no reliable way to view someone else's complete like history in 2026.
What people mean by Twitter like history
When someone searches for Twitter like history, they usually want one of two things. Either they want to see their own list of liked posts, or they want to check what another account has liked.
These are two different problems with two different answers. I will go through both, plus the changes X has made to this feature over the years, because the story is not simple.
I write this from the position of someone who manages several accounts and gets asked about this often. I am not going to pretend there is a secret workaround, because there is not one that reliably works.
The short version
You can always see your own likes. Go to your profile, tap the Likes tab, and you get a reverse chronological list of everything you have liked, for as long as you have had the account.
Seeing someone else's likes is harder. X has toggled this on and off as a public feature multiple times. Whether you can see another person's likes right now depends on their privacy settings and on whatever the platform allows at the time you are reading this.
There is no official export tool that gives you a clean downloadable like history with dates and context. If anyone tells you otherwise, be sceptical.
How the like history feature has changed over time
Twitter originally made likes public by default. Anyone could go to your profile, click the Likes tab, and scroll through everything you had hearted, going right back to the start.
This caused problems. People got caught out liking things they later regretted being public, from political posts to personal arguments. Journalists and researchers also used public likes to build pictures of accounts, which some users did not want.
In response, Twitter and then X made changes. At various points the platform has hidden likes from other users, added settings to control who sees your likes, and reversed some of those changes after user pushback. By 2026, the safest assumption is that likes are semi private: your own are always visible to you, but public visibility of others' likes is inconsistent and can change without much notice.
How to check your own like history
This part has stayed fairly stable. Here is how to do it.
- Open the X app or website and log in.
- Go to your own profile page.
- Find the row of tabs near the top, usually Posts, Replies, Highlights, Media, Likes.
- Tap or click Likes.
- Scroll down to load older likes, as the list loads in batches rather than all at once.
This works the same on mobile and desktop. If you cannot see a Likes tab at all, check your account settings, as some accounts have opted to hide this tab from their own profile view, though this is unusual.
Why you might not see someone else's likes
If you click on another account's profile and the Likes tab is missing or empty, there are a few possible reasons.
First, they may have set their account to private, in which case you cannot see most of their activity unless you follow them and they approve you.
Second, X may have restricted visibility of likes platform wide for a period, which has happened before and could happen again. Third, the account may simply not have liked anything, or may have unliked everything, which some people do deliberately to clean up their public record.
I cannot tell you which of these applies in your specific case, because it depends on settings and timing that change. What I can say plainly is that there is no guaranteed method to see a stranger's full like history if the platform or the account owner has restricted it.
Can you recover deleted or hidden likes
No. If someone has unliked a post, that action is not something you can reverse or view from the outside. There is no public undo log.
If you are trying to find something you liked yourself and have since lost track of, your best option is to search your own Likes tab and scroll back through it. This can take a while if you have liked a lot of content over the years, since there is no built in search filter specifically for likes.
For anything beyond that, such as recovering a like history from a deleted account, there is no way to do this. Once an account is deleted, its data, including its like history, is gone from public view.
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Using likes sensibly if you manage a business account
If you run a business or personal brand account, I would treat your like history as public even when it is technically hidden, because settings change and because people can take screenshots regardless of visibility settings.
A simple rule I follow: only like something on a professional account if you would be comfortable with a client or journalist seeing it. This avoids any awkwardness if X changes its visibility rules again, which based on past form, is likely at some point.
It also keeps your account's public activity consistent with your brand, which matters more than most people think when someone checks your profile before doing business with you.
What to do if you want more privacy around your likes
If you want to reduce how visible your likes are, check your current account privacy settings directly in the app, since the exact wording and location of these options has changed over different X updates.
If you cannot find a specific setting to hide likes from others, that may mean the option is not available in the current version of the platform. In that case, the only way to control visibility fully is to make your whole account private, which limits visibility of your posts and likes to approved followers only.
This is a trade off. A private account protects your like history but also reduces your reach, so think about whether that fits what you use the account for before switching it.
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Frequently asked questions
Can I see a full history of what someone else has liked on X?
Not reliably. This depends on their account settings and on whether X currently allows public visibility of likes. There is no guaranteed method to view a complete like history for another account.
Where do I find my own liked posts on X?
Go to your profile and tap the Likes tab, usually shown alongside Posts, Replies and Media. Scroll down to load older likes, as they load in batches rather than all at once.
Does X keep a record of likes I have removed?
No. Once you unlike a post, there is no public log showing that it was ever liked. This cannot be recovered or viewed by you or anyone else afterwards.
Is there an official way to export my like history from X?
There is no dedicated clean export specifically for likes with full context and dates. Your best option remains scrolling through your own Likes tab directly in the app or website.
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