A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with Twitter (X) via AI tools. This server allows you to fetch tweets, post tweets, search
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with Twitter (X) via AI tools. This server allows you to fetch tweets, post tweets, search Twitter, manage followers, and more, all through natural language commands in AI Tools. That is what the x twitter mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
The server publishes 14 tools. What each one is for:
Steps — 1. In the Twitter Developer Portal, open your app → Settings → User authentication settings and enableget_user_profile — The get_user_profile tool exposed by this serverget_user_by_screen_name — The get_user_by_screen_name tool exposed by this serverget_user_by_id — The get_user_by_id tool exposed by this serverget_user_followers — The get_user_followers tool exposed by this serverget_user_following — The get_user_following tool exposed by this serverget_user_followers_you_know — The get_user_followers_you_know tool exposed by this serverget_user_subscriptions — The get_user_subscriptions tool exposed by this serverpost_tweet — The post_tweet tool exposed by this serverdelete_tweet — The delete_tweet tool exposed by this serverget_tweet_details — The get_tweet_details tool exposed by this servercreate_poll_tweet — The create_poll_tweet tool exposed by this serverInstallation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at @smithery/cli on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Configuration is passed through the environment: PYTHONUNBUFFERED, TWITTER_API_KEY, TWITTER_API_SECRET, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET, TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN, TWITTER_OAUTH2_USER_ACCESS_TOKEN, YOUR_CLIENT_ID. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. X Twitter's toolset — Steps, get_user_profile, get_user_by_screen_name and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by rafaljanicki; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Steps | 1. In the [Twitter Developer Portal](https://developer.twitter.com/), open your app → **Settings** → **User authentication settings** and enable OAuth 2.0. Set a callback URL (e.g. https://localhost/). |
| get_user_profile | The get_user_profile tool exposed by this server. |
| get_user_by_screen_name | The get_user_by_screen_name tool exposed by this server. |
| get_user_by_id | The get_user_by_id tool exposed by this server. |
| get_user_followers | The get_user_followers tool exposed by this server. |
| get_user_following | The get_user_following tool exposed by this server. |
| get_user_followers_you_know | The get_user_followers_you_know tool exposed by this server. |
| get_user_subscriptions | The get_user_subscriptions tool exposed by this server. |
| post_tweet | The post_tweet tool exposed by this server. |
| delete_tweet | The delete_tweet tool exposed by this server. |
| get_tweet_details | The get_tweet_details tool exposed by this server. |
| create_poll_tweet | The create_poll_tweet tool exposed by this server. |
| vote_on_poll | The vote_on_poll tool exposed by this server. |
| favorite_tweet | The favorite_tweet tool exposed by this server. |
If installed from source with `uv`:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"x-twitter-mcp": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/path/to/x-twitter-mcp-server",
"run",
"x-twitter-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"PYTHONUNBUFFERED": "1"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| PYTHONUNBUFFERED | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| TWITTER_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| TWITTER_API_SECRET | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| TWITTER_OAUTH2_USER_ACCESS_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| YOUR_CLIENT_ID | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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