X (Twitter) Viral Tweets Finder - Top Content by Topic

Find the viral tweets on any topic — set a minimum likes/retweets threshold, pick a time window, and get every matching tweet with engagement rates and virality scores. No login, no cookies.

What you get

For every viral tweet:

• Tweet fields — tweet ID, URL, full text, creation date, and language
• Engagement metrics — likes, retweets, replies, quotes, views, and bookmarks
• Computed scores:
  • totalEngagement — likes + retweets + replies + quotes + bookmarks
  • engagementRatePct — engagement as a percentage of views (how strongly viewers reacted)
  • viralityMultiplier — views ÷ author's follower count (above 1 means the tweet reached far beyond its author's audience)
• Author info — username, display name, blue-verified status, follower count, and profile picture
• Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets directly from the Apify console

Use cases

• Content research — see exactly what goes viral in your niche and reverse-engineer the hooks
• Trend detection — catch breaking topics while they're still climbing
• Influencer discovery — find creators whose content consistently outperforms their follower count
• Social listening — track high-impact conversations about your brand, product, or market
• Newsletter & curation — pull the week's top tweets on a topic in one run

How to use

1. Enter a Topic — a keyword, phrase, #hashtag, or $cashtag
2. Set Minimum Likes (default 500) and optionally Minimum Retweets
3. Choose Days Back (default 7 — last week) and an optional Language
4. Run the actor — results appear in the Dataset tab, highest-engagement first

Fetching more (pagination)

After a run finishes, open the Key-value store tab → copy the NEXT_PAGE_ID value → paste it into Page ID on your next run. If NEXT_PAGE_ID is null, you've fetched everything.

Output format

Each dataset record:

{
  "topic": "artificial intelligence",
  "tweetId": "1866332309399781537",
  "url": "https://x.com/user/status/1866332309399781537",
  "text": "AI just did something wild…",
  "createdAt": "Tue Dec 10 03:14:59 +0000 2024",
  "lang": "en",
  "likeCount": 15230,
  "retweetCount": 2140,
  "replyCount": 890,
  "quoteCount": 312,
  "viewCount": 1250000,
  "bookmarkCount": 4100,
  "totalEngagement": 22672,
  "engagementRatePct": 1.81,
  "viralityMultiplier": 27.5,
  "authorUsername": "example",
  "authorName": "Example User",
  "authorIsBlueVerified": true,
  "authorFollowersCount": 45400,
  "authorProfilePicture": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/…"
}

FAQ

Do I need X login credentials? No. Enter a topic and run.

How is this different from a normal tweet search? It pre-filters by engagement thresholds and time window, sorts by engagement, and adds computed virality metrics — so you get only the tweets that actually performed, ranked and scored.

Can I use advanced query syntax in the Topic field? Yes — exact phrases in quotes, OR between alternatives, and #hashtags/$cashtags all work. The engagement, date, and language filters are added automatically.