How to see the conversation between two X (Twitter) accounts

Use X's advanced search while logged in: look for posts from the first account sent as replies to the second, then swap the two for the other direction. Search gives you the posts but no total. For a number, X Friendship Test reads both public timelines and turns their replies, quotes, mentions and reposts into a score from 0 to 100%.

Two accounts reply to each other under every post, or used to. Before deciding what that means, it helps to see the actual exchange, and then to know how much of it there is.

By Filippo Pelloia·Reviewed November 9, 2026

CutNoodle is independent from X Corp. X is referenced only to identify the platform.

Find their replies with X search

X has an advanced search for people who are logged in. Its People filters are the ones that matter here: posts from a specific account, posts sent as replies to a specific account, and posts that mention a specific account.

1. Log in on x.com and search for anything, for example the first username.
2. On the results page, open Advanced search, under the search filters.
3. In People, enter the first account in the field for posts from an account, and the second in the field for replies to an account. Run the search: the results are the replies the first account sent the second.
4. Swap the two accounts and search again for the other direction.
5. For posts that name the other account without replying to it, keep the first account as the sender and put the second in the mention field instead.

Search does not work without an X account, and direct messages never show up in it.

Why search alone does not give you a number

Search hands you a list of posts and leaves the counting to you. To know whether the two really talk, you would scroll both directions, write down how many replies each side sent, notice which weeks they went quiet, and check how long ago the last one was. On a busy pair that is hundreds of posts.

And a long list in one direction says little on its own. It only means something next to the count for the other direction, which is a second search and a second tally.

How to measure it with X Friendship Test

1. Open X Friendship Test. There is no sign up and no login.
2. Type one username in First X username and the other in Second X username, with or without the @, then press Test the friendship.
3. Wait while it reads both timelines at once. The page shows how many posts it has read for each account, and Stop cancels it.
4. Read the score and its label. The line under them says how many posts of each account were read and how many days both cover.
5. Pick Post 3:4 for a post on X or Story 9:16 for a story, a layout (Stickers, Versus, Big number) and a colour.
6. Press PNG to download the card, Post on X to open a post with it, or Copy share link to send the result as a link.

If the result says Reading @username stopped early, the service that reads X did not send the rest of that timeline. Press Keep reading with that username: it picks up where it stopped, and the score updates.

How to read the score

The score is four parts added together, 100 points in all. With the result, the page shows how many points each part got.

Both ways carries the most weight on purpose. One account replying to the other fifty times, with nothing coming back, is attention, not a conversation, and the score shows it.

Then the score gets a label:

What a low score does not mean

The test measures public talk on X, nothing else. Two people who text every day, meet every week, or only like each other's posts can score close to zero. Likes, follows and direct messages are invisible to it.

The stretch matters too. The test reads up to 120 days back, but only counts the days both timelines cover. X shows at most the latest ~3,200 posts of an account, so if one of the two posts all day, that stretch can be a few days, and the result says so. A pair that talked a lot last year and not since will score low.

A high score is not proof of friendship either: it counts replies, not their tone.

Does the other person find out?

Running the test reads public posts and sends nothing to anyone. Neither account is notified, and nothing appears on X. The only step that reaches X is Post on X: it opens a post with both usernames already in it, and nothing is published unless you send it. Once it is published, it works like any post that mentions someone.

Where the data goes

The two usernames you type are sent from your browser to FxTwitter, an independent unofficial service that reads public X posts. If it returns no profile or profile photo, the browser asks vxTwitter, another independent unofficial service. The score and the card are made in your browser and are not saved by CutNoodle. Nothing is stored unless you press Copy share link: then the result is kept for 7 days, and the link stops working after that. The details are in the privacy policy.

Common questions

Test two X accounts with X Friendship Test. Free, no login.