Overview
X API for search, trends, tweets, users, communities, spaces, and real-time intelligence
X remains one of the fastest public platforms for breaking events, market reaction, political conversation, sports, culture, and expert commentary. This service gives teams structured access to search, trends, tweets, users, followers, communities, spaces, lists, and engagement surfaces so they can monitor live public conversation in real time.
Why real-time X monitoring matters
When news breaks, markets move, or public debate spikes, X is often one of the earliest places where reactions become visible. Its value comes from speed, publicness, and the way journalists, traders, politicians, researchers, operators, and niche communities all intersect on the platform.
What Problem Does It Solve?
Teams monitoring X usually need much more than keyword search. They need tweets, accounts, follower context, replies, quotes, communities, lists, spaces, and trend location data. Without that structure, it is hard to do serious real-time analysis or account intelligence.
Who Is It For?
- Newsrooms, market-monitoring products, and real-time intelligence teams.
- Brand, reputation, and issue-monitoring teams that track public conversation as it happens.
- Developers building social dashboards, alerting systems, and trend-analysis products.
- AI teams creating assistants that need live public discourse as input.
Key Benefits
- Access search, tweets, users, followers, replies, likes, media, trends, communities, spaces, and lists in one service.
- Support both account-level intelligence and topic-level real-time monitoring.
- Use location-aware trends and community surfaces for deeper contextual analysis.
- Capture fast public reaction before slower media channels catch up.
- Use API, MCP, and web app access across product, analyst, and AI workflows.
Use Cases
- Monitor market-moving narratives, breaking news, political statements, or live events as they unfold.
- Track influential accounts, communities, and verified-follower networks around a topic.
- Build alerting and dashboard products around trends, spaces, replies, and engagement shifts.
- Let AI agents produce rapid-response summaries from live public conversation.
How It Works
- Choose the right X surface: search, tweet, user, trends, list, community, space, or network-related endpoint.
- Retrieve the surrounding context such as quotes, comments, followers, or lists where needed.
- Deliver the output into dashboards, crisis-monitoring tools, research systems, or AI workflows.
AI and MCP Workflows
- Use MCP so AI agents can track live conversation, influential accounts, and emerging trends before writing a summary.
- Combine X with web, news, Reddit, and other social signals for stronger real-time intelligence.
- Automate event, brand, and market monitoring without forcing analysts to monitor timelines manually.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why is X still useful despite platform volatility? Because it remains one of the fastest public layers for live reaction, expert commentary, and trend emergence.
- Is this only for media and politics? No. It is also useful for finance, customer issues, sports, entertainment, product launches, and cultural tracking.
- Can AI agents monitor X directly? Yes. MCP access is designed for that kind of live workflow.
Getting Started
Start by deciding whether your workflow is centered on search, specific accounts, networks, communities, spaces, or trend monitoring. Then connect the right X endpoints into your application or AI agent so the system can work with live public context instead of isolated posts. API, MCP, and web app access are included. Usage is billed by request tier. For teams that monitor live conversation every day, the annual plan is the better commercial choice because you pay for only 10 months and get 12 months of access, which gives you 2 months free.
Highlights
- Real-time data access
- Search functionality for tweets
- User profile retrieval
Details
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Pricing
Dimension | Description | Cost/month | Overage cost |
|---|---|---|---|
Micro Tier | Designed for individual users, small teams, and early experiments with X API and MCP tools. Ideal for testing, prototyping, and light social media monitoring. Limited daily searches across Tweets, Users, and Followers. Access to core X API endpoints for basic analytics and insights. Perfect for freelancers, researchers, and small proof-of-concept projects. | $20.00 | |
Starter Tier | Built for startups and small organizations needing consistent X API access for Tweets, Users, and Followers data. Increased daily search volumes, AI-ready MCP Server integration, and basic analytics workflows. Includes scheduling for automated social insights. Perfect for startups building analytics dashboards, brand monitoring apps, or compliance tools. | $80.00 | |
Business Tier | Optimized for SMBs, agencies, and mid-sized enterprises needing continuous, high-volume access to X API and MCP Server data. Cross-market Tweet, User, and Follower searches with multi-language support. Advanced AI/LLM workflows, enriched data with sentiment analysis, influencer metrics, and real-time alerts. Ideal for marketing agencies, compliance teams, and research departments managing multiple clients or projects. | $200.00 | |
Enterprise Tier | Comprehensive package for large enterprises, institutions, and global organizations requiring advanced intelligence from X API with MCP Server integrations. Unlimited or custom query volumes, multi-tenant dashboards, role-based access, enterprise-grade security, SLA-backed support, dedicated success manager, and real-time streaming. Designed for financial institutions, compliance teams, global corporations, and government agencies with AI-driven analytics and regulatory monitoring needs. | $600.00 |
Vendor refund policy
All subscriptions are non-refundable for the billed period once payment has been processed. Customers may cancel future renewals at any time, but charges for the current billing cycle will not be refunded.
For questions or assistance regarding billing or cancellations, please contact: Email: support@pressmonitor.com
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Press Monitor X / Twitter Search API
Onboarding Instructions
The Press Monitor Advanced Twitter/X Search API provides programmatic access to search, tweet lookup, user profiles, and network graph endpoints (followers, followings), with pagination cursors and enterprise-ready JSON. Ideal for brand monitoring, influencer discovery, social listening, and AI/analytics pipelines.
Base URL & OpenAPI Schema
Base Endpoint:
<https://api.pressmonitor.com/x/v1>OpenAPI Schema: Download Schema
Authentication
All endpoints require Bearer Token authentication:
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKENEach request deducts credits based on content type. Credits and request IDs are returned in responses for usage tracking.
Endpoints Overview
- GET /search — advanced search across Tweets, Photos/Media, People, Latest, and Lists
- GET /tweet — retrieve a Tweet by ID (rich engagement + media)
- GET /user — lookup a user by username
- GET /followers — followers of a user (paginated)
- GET /followings — accounts a user follows (paginated)
- GET /user-tweets — recent tweets by a user (paginated)
- GET /get-users — bulk lookup by user IDs (comma-separated)
- GET /verified-followers — only verified followers (paginated)
Parameters by Endpoint
/search
- query (required) — search term/keyword
- type (required) — Top | Photos | Media | People | Latest | Lists
- count (optional) — page size (endpoint max applies)
- cursor (optional) — pagination cursor from previous page
/tweet
- pid (required) — tweet ID
/user
- username (required) — screen name without @
/followers, /followings, /user-tweets, /verified-followers
- user (required) — target user ID (rest_id)
- count (optional) — page size
- cursor (optional) — pagination
/get-users
- users (required) — comma-separated user IDs
Response Shape (summary)
Most list endpoints return an array of objects. Pagination support is provided via a cursor parameter (request) and may be surfaced as next_cursor in responses.
Example Requests
Search (Latest)
curl -s "https://api.pressmonitor.com/x/v1/search?query=AI%20models&type=Top&count=20" -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"Tweet by ID
curl -s "https://api.pressmonitor.com/x/v1/tweet?pid=1964395588927000801" -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"Followers (paginated)
curl -s "https://api.pressmonitor.com/x/v1/followers?user=2455740283&count=50&cursor=NEXT_CURSOR" -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"Bulk Users
curl -s "<https://api.pressmonitor.com/x/v1/get-users?users=44196397>,2455740283" -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"Best Practices
- Use cursor to page large result sets efficiently.
- Respect endpoint count maximums to avoid throttling.
- Cache non-volatile lookups (e.g., user profile by ID).
- Log request_id (if present) for support/usage tracing.
Support
Docs & Guides: https://www.pressmonitor.com/en/docs/twitter-x-api Email: support@pressmonitor.com
Press Monitor X / Twitter MCP Server
Onboarding Instructions
The Press Monitor X MCP Server exposes Twitter/X tools over JSON-RPC 2.0 for AI agents and automations. All tool names map 1:1 to the API operationIds, with structured output that includes a data envelope (items + pagination) and credits for metering.
Base URL
Base Endpoint:
<https://mcp.pressmonitor.com/x/v1>OpenAPI Schema: Download Schema
Authentication
All endpoints require Bearer Token authentication:
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKENEach request deducts credits based on content type. Credits and request IDs are returned in responses for usage tracking.
Discover Tools
List the available tools via JSON-RPC:
curl -s -X POST "https://mcp.pressmonitor.com/x/v1" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'Common tools (operationId = tool name): search, tweet, user, followers, followings, userTweets, getUsers, verifiedFollowers.
Example: Call search
Expected output envelope:
{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "result": { "content": [{ "type": "json", "json": { "data": { "items": [ /* array of tweets/users/media depending on type */ ], "next_cursor": "string or null" }, "credits": { "rate": 1, "quantity": 1, "total": 1, "request_id": "..." } } }] } }Example: Followers
Client Config Snippet (mcp.json)
Tips
- Keep count reasonable (e.g., 25–100) and always reuse next_cursor for pagination.
- Tool outputs follow the declared outputSchema with data.items and data.next_cursor plus credits.
- For reproducible analytics, store request/response pairs with timestamps and request IDs.
Support
Docs & Guides: https://www.pressmonitor.com/en/docs/twitter-x-api Email: support@pressmonitor.com
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