# X (Twitter)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/twitter/  
**Website:** https://developer.x.com/en/portal/dashboard  
**APIs profiled:** 23

X (formerly Twitter) is a social media platform providing APIs for accessing and integrating with posts, users, spaces, direct messages, lists, media, trends, and real-time streaming data. The X API enables developers to build applications that read and write X data, manage advertising campaigns, and subscribe to real-time activity events. Available through pay-per-use credit-based pricing with enterprise options for high-volume access.

## Kin Score — 54.3 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 54.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 67.0 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 59.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 57.9 |
| Access Clarity | 57.9 |

## Agent readiness — 40.5 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | yes |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (23)

- **X Ads API** — The X Ads API enables programmatic management of advertising campaigns on the X platform including campaign creation and scheduling, custom audience building, creative managemen...
- **X Activity API** — The X Activity API provides real-time activity event subscriptions with sub-second delivery via streaming or webhooks. Subscribe to profile updates, follows, likes, reposts, and...
- **X (Twitter) Account Activity API** — Endpoints relating to retrieving, managing AAA subscriptions
- **X (Twitter) Activity API** — The Activity API from X (Twitter) — 3 operation(s) for activity.
- **X (Twitter) Bookmarks API** — Endpoints related to retrieving, managing bookmarks of a user
- **X (Twitter) Chat API** — The Chat API from X (Twitter) — 15 operation(s) for chat.
- **X (Twitter) Communities API** — The Communities API from X (Twitter) — 2 operation(s) for communities.
- **X (Twitter) Community Notes API** — The Community Notes API from X (Twitter) — 5 operation(s) for community notes.
- **X (Twitter) Compliance API** — Endpoints related to keeping X data in your systems compliant
- **X (Twitter) Connections API** — Endpoints related to streaming connections
- **X (Twitter) Direct Messages API** — Endpoints related to retrieving, managing Direct Messages
- **X (Twitter) General API** — Miscellaneous endpoints for general API functionality
- **X (Twitter) Likes API** — The Likes API from X (Twitter) — 2 operation(s) for likes.
- **X (Twitter) Lists API** — Endpoints related to retrieving, managing Lists
- **X (Twitter) Media API** — Endpoints related to Media
- **X (Twitter) News API** — Endpoint for retrieving news stories
- **X (Twitter) Spaces API** — Endpoints related to retrieving, managing Spaces
- **X (Twitter) Stream API** — Endpoints related to streaming
- **X (Twitter) Trends API** — The Trends API from X (Twitter) — 2 operation(s) for trends.
- **X (Twitter) Tweets API** — Endpoints related to retrieving, searching, and modifying Tweets
- **X (Twitter) Usage API** — The Usage API from X (Twitter) — 1 operation(s) for usage.
- **X (Twitter) Users API** — Endpoints related to retrieving, managing relationships of Users
- **X (Twitter) Webhooks API** — The Webhooks API from X (Twitter) — 5 operation(s) for webhooks.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Twitter Agentic Access** — 163 operations · 67 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

## Security (1)

- **Twitter Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

## Plans (1)

- **Twitter Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (8)

- **Social Listening** — Monitor brand mentions, sentiment, and conversations in real-time using filtered streams and search endpoints.
- **Content Publishing** — Automate post creation, scheduling, and thread publishing for social media management platforms.
- **Analytics and Reporting** — Retrieve post metrics, user engagement data, and campaign performance for business intelligence.
- **Bot Development** — Build automated accounts that respond to mentions, post updates, or provide customer service.
- **Research and Academic Analysis** — Access full-archive search and streaming data for social media research and trend analysis.
- **Advertising Automation** — Programmatically manage ad campaigns, audiences, creatives, and bidding strategies at scale.
- **Real-Time Event Monitoring** — Track live events, breaking news, and trending topics with streaming APIs and trend endpoints.
- **Community Management** — Manage followers, lists, and direct messages for community engagement and moderation.

## Tags

Social-Media, Microblogging, Real-Time Data, Streaming, Advertising, Content

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/twitter/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.