How it works

Community note data is fetched regularly from Twitter (X).

This data is always a couple of days old (most recent data is from , scraped ).

Notes are excluded if they meet any of the following criteria:

We also attempt to filter out notes for deleted tweets and non-English tweets.


Filter by author group

With thanks to @leobenedictus for the suggestion, community notes can be filtered by current UK MPs.


Special Twitter (X) language codes

When Twitter (X) can’t determine the language of a tweet, it uses one of several reserved language codes. For the purpose of language filtering, we’ve grouped these all together. But this is the breakdown:

Language code Description
art Tweet contains emojis only
qam Tweet contains mentions only
qct Tweet contains cashtags only
qht Tweet contains hashtags only
qme Tweet contains media only
qst Tweet text is very short
und Undefined (couldn’t determine the language)
zxx Tweet contains media or twitter card only

Tweet indexing status

After fetching new proposed community notes, the text of the tweets that the notes reference is not immediately searchable. In order to make it searchable, we need to fetch these tweets – a process that can take several hours. You can see the current status below.

100% of tweets (9,201 / 9,201) are currently searchable.


Why is the language unknown for some tweets?

Until we’ve fetched a tweet, we don’t know its language. So ‘unknown language’ may mean we haven’t yet fetched that tweet. Once we’ve fetched it (in the next hour or so) we should know the tweet author, language and text.

‘Unknown language’ may also mean the tweet has been deleted. In this case, we have no way of determining the tweet author, language or text.