Twitter

About Twitter

The X (formerly Twitter) Developer Platform provides API access to real-time data including posts, users, trends, spaces, direct messages, and lists. It offers two access tiers: a pay-per-use option with credit-based, commitment-free pricing, and an enterprise tier with high-volume endpoints, dedicated account management, and custom rate limits. Requests for a developer's own data (posts, bookmarks, followers, likes) are priced separately at $0.001 per resource under the "Owned Reads" pricing.

The platform includes official Python and TypeScript SDKs, an API reference covering endpoints for posts, users, spaces, DMs, and lists, and a separate Ads API for managing ad campaigns, targeting, creatives, and analytics programmatically. Documentation includes quickstart guides, tutorials, and developer guidelines.

It is aimed at developers building applications or integrations on top of X's data and advertising systems, with support available through a developer forum and community resources.

Key features

• Access posts, users, trends, spaces, DMs, and lists through the X API
• Credit-based pay-per-usage pricing with no commitments
• Reduced pricing for accessing your own data (Owned Reads) at $0.001 per resource
• Official Python and TypeScript SDKs
• Enterprise tier with high-volume endpoints, dedicated account management, and custom rate limits
• X Ads API for programmatic ad campaign, targeting, creative, and analytics management

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