Can people see your bookmarks on X?

Yes. Bookmarks have been private since Twitter launched them in 2018, and they stayed private through the rename to X. No app or website can look up someone else's bookmarks, because X doesn't offer a way to do it. X's Help Center page About Bookmarks says: "No, Bookmarks are private and are only viewable to you within your X account."

That makes a bookmark the quietest way to save a post. A like is visible to the post's author, and a repost puts the post on your profile. A bookmark does neither.

No, but part of the bookmark system is. In March 2023, Twitter started showing a bookmark count on posts (first on iOS), next to replies, reposts and likes. Anyone who opens the post can see that number. It's a tally only. On your own posts you can see who liked them, but nobody, the author included, can see who bookmarked a post.

That count is where most of the confusion comes from. People see a number go up on their post and assume the savers can be identified. They can't.

Twitter bookmarks and X bookmarks are the same feature. Twitter was renamed X in 2023 and the bookmark rules didn't change. Everything on this page applies whether you still call it Twitter or not.

No. The author can see the total number of bookmarks on their post, and that's all. Bookmarking sends no notification, doesn't appear in the author's activity, and isn't shown on your profile.

How bookmarks compare with likes and reposts

No. Bookmark folders are a paid feature on X, and they are as private as the main list. Paying for X changes how you can organise bookmarks, not who can see them. About X Premium lists bookmark folders under Basic, and the higher tiers include Basic. How folders work and how to organise bookmarks without paying is in the bookmark folders guide.

In the app: tap your profile photo (top left) and choose Bookmarks.

On the web: click Bookmarks in the left sidebar, or go to x.com/i/bookmarks.

Bookmarks appear in one list, newest first. You need to be signed in to the account that made the bookmarks. A second account has its own separate list.

A bookmark is a pointer to a post, not a copy of it. If the author deletes the post, protects their account or is suspended, your bookmark has nothing left to show. Older bookmarks can also stop loading at the bottom of a long list. Both problems, and what you can and can't recover, are covered in why your Twitter bookmarks disappeared and is there a Twitter bookmark limit?.

X also has no export button for bookmarks. The options that do exist, and what each one really gives you, are in how to export Twitter bookmarks.

If you want the post itself rather than a pointer to it, you need a copy that you hold. A screenshot or a PDF works for a few posts. For more than a few, WHT.day does it two ways:

• X bookmark sync: connect your X account once with read-only access. WHT.day imports your recent bookmarks, then checks for new ones three times a day and saves each post's text, author and media. Each one is filed on the day you saved it.
• The browser extension: saves the post you have open, in one click, into your personal news archive.

A copy saved this way stays in your archive if the original post is later deleted. WHT.day is $8 a month or $68 a year. See pricing.