Meet world’s fastest, most affordable, and most reliable Twitter API—twitterapi.io. Built for modern builders, it handles 1 000 + requests / s with a median 500 ms response time while keeping average costs below a penny per hundred calls. Below is a practical guide—≈ 800 words—showing why thousands of developers have already switched, what you can fetch or publish with one token, and how pay-as-you-go pricing lets prototypes and production apps scale without surprises.
1 | Why look beyond the official API?
Twitter’s own tiers gate full-archive search and follower exports behind Enterprise contracts and tight per-15-minute windows, making even basic analytics expensive and slow.twitterapi.io removes those bottlenecks:
- No OAuth setup, no monthly minimums—just an API key.
- Full-history & streaming in every plan, so you can back-test years of data and trigger automation in real-time.
- Write endpoints (tweet, follow, DM, like, etc.) available under the same key—no second product or scope.
2 | Instant overview of available endpoints
| Category | Example routes |
| User | `/get_user_by_id` • `/batch_get_user` • `/search_user` |
| Tweet | `/search_tweet` • `/get_tweet_by_id` • `/get_tweet_reply` • `/get_tweet_quoted` • `/get_trends` |
| Follower | `/get_follower` • `/get_following` |
| Communities | `/get_communitie_info` • `/get_communitie_tweets` • `/get_tweet_mods` • `/get_communitie_member` |
| Post & Action | login, create tweet, send DM, retweet, follow/unfollow, like/unlike, join/leave communities |
Please refer to the complete API : https://docs.twitterapi.io
All endpoints follow a consistent REST+JSON pattern and ship with interactive “Try it” consoles in the docs, speeding onboarding.
3 | Hands-on:
3.1.Fetch Elon Musk’s recent tweets mentioning AI
curl –location ‘https://api.twitterapi.io/twitter/tweet/advanced_search?query=from:elonmusk ai &queryType=Latest’ \
–header ‘x-api-key: {your_api_key}’
3.2.Fetch Elon Musk’s follower
curl –location ‘https://api.twitterapi.io/twitter/user/followers?userName=elonmusk’ \
–header ‘x-api-key: {your_api_key}’
3.3.Check if Trump is following Elon Musk
curl –location ‘https://api.twitterapi.io/twitter/user/check_follow_relationship?source_user_name=realDonaldTrump&target_user_name=elonmusk’ \
–header ‘x-api-key: {your_api_key}’
Each call costs $0.15 / 1 000 followers and you can batch up to 200 followers per request, slashing crawl time (about 900ms).Compare that to the official limit of 15 cursor requests per 15 min plus OAuth overhead.
4 | Real-time streaming <30 lines
import json
import websocket # pip install websocket-client
WS_URL = “wss://ws.twitterapi.io/twitter/tweet/websocket”
API_KEY = “YOUR_API_KEY” # replace your api-key
def on_message(ws, message):
“””
handle tweet event
“””
data = json.loads(message)
if data.get(“event_type”) != “tweet”:
return
rule = data.get(“rule_tag”)
tweets = data.get(“tweets”, [])
print(f”[{rule}] received {len(tweets)} tweet(s)”)
for t in tweets:
print(” └─”, t[“text”][:80]) # print tweet text
def on_open(ws):
print(“✅ WebSocket connected”)
def on_close(ws, code, reason):
print(f”❌ Connection closed: {code} / {reason}”)
def on_error(ws, error):
print(“⚠️ Error:”, error)
if __name__ == “__main__”:
websocket.WebSocketApp(
WS_URL,
header={“x-api-key”: API_KEY},
on_open=on_open,
on_message=on_message,
on_error=on_error,
on_close=on_close
).run_forever(ping_interval=40, ping_timeout=30)
Streams arrive with sub-second latency and you can hook multiple rules per connection; perfect for trading bots, crisis monitoring or community dashboards.
5 | Pricing that stays predictable
| Resource | Cost per 1 000 units |
| Tweets | $0.15 |
| Followers | $0.15 |
| Profiles | $0.18 |
- No minimum spend, pay-as-you-go credit model. Credits never expire and larger re-charges earn up to 5 % bonus.
- Micro-billing floor: $0.00015 (15 credits) if your response is tiny—avoids “empty page” surprises.
- Bulk discounts automatically applied on high-volume accounts or enterprise agreements.
Cost transparency means you can forecast data spend like any other cloud metric.
6 | Performance & reliability stats
- 1 000 + requests per second out of the box per key.
- 500 ms average latency from request to JSON payload.
- 99 % historical uptime backed by multi-region infrastructure.
- 10 000 + registered developers trust the platform for production.
7 | Five common use-cases you can build today
- Historical tweet scraping for LLM training or sentiment back-testing.
- Account monitoring via API—get followers, engagements, mentions on a cron job.
- Real-time alerts with webhooks or WebSocket for breaking-news dashboards.
- Post & engage bots that tweet, DM, follow/unfollow safely under one rate limit.
- Community analytics—extract member lists, moderators and trending topics in any Twitter Community.
Each scenario reuses the same auth model and pricing table, keeping DevOps simple.
8 | Getting started in under 60 seconds
- Create a free account—you’ll receive $0.10 of credits instantly, no card required.
- Generate an API key and copy into your .env.
- Explore the interactive docs to test endpoints and watch live pricing per call before shipping code.
9 | Ready to ship?
twitterapi.io pairs enterprise-grade throughput with coffee-money pricing and an endpoint catalog that already covers followers, tweets, communities, trends and write actions. Next time you need Twitter data, skip the OAuth maze and point your fetcher at world’s fastest, most affordable, and most reliable Twitter API.
Sign up, grab your key, and build something brilliant.
