Summary
X research an assistant can run itself, one read at a time.
It covers what social research actually needs — operator search, follower graphs, the replies and quotes around a single post, trends by place — and stops there: nothing in the set can change anything on an account.
What it is
The official twitterapi.io server — twelve read-only tools mapped one to one onto that API's production endpoints. Every call is a live read of Twitter/X data, and nothing in the set writes.
What you get
- Advanced search with the full X operator syntax — from:, to:, since:, lang:, has: — rather than keywords alone
- A user's profile basics, their extended about page, their recent timeline, and the tweets mentioning them
- Follower and following lists with complete profile metadata, paginated by cursor for accounts too large for one call
- A conversation reconstructed around one tweet: its replies, its quote-tweets, and who retweeted it
- Up to 100 tweets fetched by ID in a single call, for when you already know what you are after
- Current trending topics for a location, by WOEID
Requirements
Npx and Node; the package is @twitterapi_io/mcp-server. A twitterapi.io API key, with a free tier available, passed as TWITTERAPI_IO_API_KEY. Read-only — none of the twelve tools posts, follows or deletes anything.
Setup effort
One command plus a key — npx -y @twitterapi_io/mcp-server, then supply credentials