How To Find Someone on X (Formerly Twitter)

Finding a specific person on X (formerly Twitter) is an easy task, just type the person’s name or username into the search box and X will give you the answer. However, if you want to find someone without a username, things get complicated. Don’t worry, as long as you have the person’s real name, phone number, or email address, you can easily and quickly find someone’s X account.

X Account Finder

1 – Searching with a nickname and real name

Although you don’t know the person’s username on X, you can always try searching. Some people tend to use their real name, some like to use the same username on all social media platforms. If you know the person’s real name or username on other social media platforms, use the search bar in X, you may find the person luckily.

While this method needs some luck and time, you can move to the next method which is more effective.

2 – Upload and manage your contact

If you have the person’s phone number or email address, X allows you to find the person on X as long as the person has an account.

Click the More button, go to Settings and Support > Setting and privacy. In your Privacy and safety tab, click Discoverability and contacts. You can control other people how to find you on X. If you don’t want others find you through contacts and email, just disable this feature.

How to upload and manage your contacts on X?

You have to convert your account to a X Professional Account. After finishing the process, you follow the steps to sync your contacts by selecting Make more connections.

When you finished, you can see the X accounts associated with your contacts from the Who to follow pane.

If you couldn’t find the people’s account and you’re pretty sure he/she does have a X account, they may turn off the settings so you can’t find their accounts through email or phone number.

Hint: To remove your contacts, you can adjust settings to unsync your contacts.

3 – Find X account by BeenVerified

BeenVerified is a powerful people search tool that provides a complete report that includes full name, current address, and social media accounts. It has 5 ways to help you search a person’s X account, its huge database helps you look through billions of data in a few seconds to search for the correct information you need.

1) Go to BeenVerified.

2) Select Phone Lookup/ Email Lookup/Address Lookup and enter the information in the search box. Then click Search.

3) Follow the instructions to complete the payment, and you’ll uncover a detailed report.

Different results will turn up when you search with different databases. So if no result is found with a phone number, try inputting the email address of the person and see how things go.

4 – Find X account with Spokeo

Spokeo is a famous and powerful people search tool that can filter through billions of phone directories and white page records to give you a thorough report about the phone number owner.
Here is how to use it:

1) Go to the Spokeo website.

2) Select Phone/Email/Address and enter the information in the box and click Search Now.

3) After the report is unlocked, simply navigate to Social Profiles and check out the X account.

FAQ

Can people find my old username and @?

Your username change will be noted in your private X archive. As long as no one has ever mentioned you on X with the old username, you should be OK. But if someone @ your old username combines with your present name, (e.g. @oldpresentname), it could appear in searches.

Conclusion

You can spend some time Googling the phone number or email address to find the correct X account, but it could take a lot of time and without an accurate answer. Data on search engines could be outdated by the way. That’s why we recommend you use people search tools like Spokeo and BeenVerified.

Hopefully, this post helped. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to leave your comments below.

There’s no guarantee you’ll find the information you’re looking for with the tools discussed in this article. They all source their information from publicly available data sources, such as county, state and federal courts, government departments, and police records, and those sources may contain incorrect or incomplete data. It’s illegal to use these tools to make decisions about employment, admission, consumer credit, insurance, tenant screening, or any other purpose that would require FCRA compliance. Read the Fair Credit Reporting Act to learn more....

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