Find people
A practical, tested guide to X search operators, the Advanced Search form, Lists and location searches. It also covers what replaced Communities after X closed them in 2026.
How to find the right people on X →AI tools for X
A curated guide in six categories: scheduling, writing and threads, analytics, reply and engagement, images and video, and research and monitoring. Each tool links to its official site, and we checked that every one still works with X.
See the tool guide →The story
Tweetmondo started in 2009 as a way to find Twitter users near you on a map. It went quiet for a decade. Here's what it was and why it's back.
About Tweetmondo →What Tweetmondo is now
X is still one of the best places on the internet to meet people who know things: engineers who post their working notes, local reporters, researchers, founders and niche experts who would never write a blog. The hard part has always been finding them. The follow suggestions X shows you are tuned for engagement, not relevance, and many of the discovery features people relied on have been changed or removed.
Tweetmondo is a reference for that problem. Everything here is written for people, not search engines. Each guide explains how a feature works today, what stopped working, and what to do instead. We'd rather have a few useful pages than hundreds of thin ones.
Why discovery on X got harder
Three changes in the past few years matter most if you're trying to find people:
- Communities are gone. X shut down Communities in 2026, citing low usage and spam, and pointed admins towards joinable group chats in XChat. Premium subscribers got topic-based Custom Timelines instead. The people-finding guide explains what to use now.
- Location search is unreliable. Twitter stopped letting people tag precise locations on posts in 2019, and in independent tests in October 2026 the
near:,within:andgeocode:operators returned nothing. You can still find local people. It just takes different techniques. - Power tools moved behind paywalls. X Pro, the multi-column dashboard formerly known as TweetDeck, has required a Premium+ subscription since March 2026. The account-wide analytics dashboard needs Premium. Our tool guide notes which features cost money.
None of this makes X useless for discovery. It means the old tricks need updating, and that's what this site does.
How we keep it honest
- We verify, then we date it. We check every tool and operator against current sources before it goes on the page, and each guide shows when it was last reviewed.
- No ratings we can't back up. We don't invent star ratings, user counts or testimonials. If we haven't verified a price, we leave it out.
- No paid placements or affiliate links. Tool names link straight to each tool's official site.
- We say when things break. When a tool drops X support, as Hypefury did, we note it rather than leaving a stale recommendation in place.
Since 2009
Tweetmondo first launched in 2009. You signed in with your Twitter account, typed a place, and saw the Twitter users near it on a Google Map. Later that summer it became a "layer" for the Layar augmented-reality browser, so you could hold up your phone and see nearby tweeters over the camera view. VentureBeat, CNN and Engadget all covered it that August. The project went to sleep in the 2010s. This relaunch keeps the original idea of helping people find each other, updated for how X works today. Read the full story.
A note on our sister site
Our tool guide sticks to tools that are useful specifically on X. For the wider AI landscape, such as writing assistants, image generators and research tools that have nothing to do with social media, we point you to AI Flood, a directory of AI tools that tracks ratings, freshness and a weekly feed of what changed. It's run by the same person as Tweetmondo, so treat those links as recommendations from a friend, not neutral citations.