Search for tweets with t.co rewritten links

Question

Just noticed a spike of visitors following a t.co/LINKHERE a link re-written by twitter. Is there a way to track back to the twitter message that contained the link, if you know

Answer 1

t.co links do show up in search, so if you're curious, you have about a week to find them before they get dropped from the search index.

For example: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=https:%2F%2Ft.co%2FGJMsIcM6

Returns:

{
  "completed_in": 0.019,
  "max_id": 178215431251828740,
  "max_id_str": "178215431251828736",
  "page": 1,
  "query": "https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FGJMsIcM6",
  "refresh_url": "?since_id=178215431251828736&q=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FGJMsIcM6",
  "results": [
    {
      "created_at": "Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:27:24 +0000",
      "from_user": "kurrik",
      "from_user_id": 7588892,
      "from_user_id_str": "7588892",
      "from_user_name": "Arne Roomann-Kurrik",
      "geo": null,
      "id": 178215431251828740,
      "id_str": "178215431251828736",
      "iso_language_code": "en",
      "metadata": {
        "result_type": "recent"
      },
      "profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/24229162/arne001_normal.jpg",
      "profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/24229162/arne001_normal.jpg",
      "source": "<a href="http://twitter.com/tweetbutton" rel="nofollow">Tweet Button</a>",
      "text": "RT @raffi: “Twitter Catches the 'SPDY' Train” from @wired → http://t.co/suCbWWEl (& they reference my tweet! → https://t.co/GJMsIcM6)",
      "to_user": null,
      "to_user_id": null,
      "to_user_id_str": null,
      "to_user_name": null
    },
    {
      "created_at": "Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:26:26 +0000",
      "from_user": "raffi",
      "from_user_id": 8285392,
      "from_user_id_str": "8285392",
      "from_user_name": "Raffi Krikorian",
      "geo": null,
      "id": 178215186921033730,
      "id_str": "178215186921033730",
      "iso_language_code": "en",
      "metadata": {
        "result_type": "recent"
      },
      "profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1270234259/raffi-headshot-casual_normal.png",
      "profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1270234259/raffi-headshot-casual_normal.png",
      "source": "<a href="http://twitter.com/tweetbutton" rel="nofollow">Tweet Button</a>",
      "text": "“Twitter Catches the 'SPDY' Train” from @wired → http://t.co/suCbWWEl (& they reference my tweet! → https://t.co/GJMsIcM6)",
      "to_user": null,
      "to_user_id": null,
      "to_user_id_str": null,
      "to_user_name": null
    }
  ],
  "results_per_page": 15,
  "since_id": 0,
  "since_id_str": "0"
}

You'll see that search returns retweets as well.