Twitter API features & what every result includes

Each line below is something you get from Xquik. Each line applies to 1 or more of the REST API, MCP, Apify Actors & monitors. You pay only for delivered, unique, matching rows.

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Complete results

• Searches return posts that X’s own search tab leaves out.
• Large date ranges come back whole & fast.
• Searches return every match, whatever operators you combine.
• Account searches include all of the account’s posts & reposts.
• Account history comes back complete, old posts included.
• Threads include every post & the author’s own replies.
• Profile posts without replies still keep the author’s own threads.
• Profile reads include the pinned post, flagged as pinned.
• List timelines include posts that X’s List page leaves out.
• Follower & following exports return full lists.
• Verified follower exports return full lists too.
• Reply exports include replies that X’s post page leaves out.
• A repost’s ID returns the original post’s replies.
• Complete mode adds replies the author hid & explains empty threads.
• Similar-account lists come back fuller.
• Top tweet lists come back reliably.
• Filtered pages come back full until the results run out.
• A small page size never loses rows between pages.
• Timelines page all the way to the last post.
• Batch post lookups miss fewer posts.
• Account location labels fill in on more rows, at no extra charge.
• Each answer holds the fullest data X has for it.

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Accurate rows

• Search results hold every post that matches your query & nothing else.
• Word & phrase matching works in every language & script.
• Language filters work for every language X tags.
• Language, date & engagement filters hold on every row you get.
• A post is called missing only when it’s gone.
• “X can’t run this search” appears only when it’s true.
• Protected accounts & private Lists get a clear answer, not an empty page.
• Reposts carry the full original text.
• Every ID in a row stays exact.
• Mentions, links, hashtags & highlights line up with the text.
• Counts X didn’t send are listed in unknownCounts, never shown as 0.
• Verified badges match what x.com shows.
• Rows hold public data only.
• Quote searches return every real quote & nothing else.
• Reply exports hold only direct replies, in a proven order.
• Newest-first results stay in true date order across pages.
• Messy queries still run instead of failing.
• Place searches work with names in 6 languages.
• Searches X can’t run fail at once, with the fix.
• A date means one thing in any common form.
• Searches accept since_id & max_id bounds.
• Ads & promoted entries never reach your rows.
• Monitors report only real deletions & unfollows.
• Profile change alerts don’t flap.

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Fresh data

• Account monitors see changes within about a second.
• Keyword monitors catch every matching post.
• Monitors don’t miss posts between checks.
• A monitor that falls behind catches up on what it missed.
• Live videos & Spaces raise an event when they start.
• Post monitors report changes to likes, views & other counts.
• Trends can be read for any past moment since the archive began.
• Reads keep working when X ships changes.

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Speed

• A slow X answer doesn’t hold up your request.
• Repeated lookups answer at once.
• Searches stay fast on busy topics.
• Each next page arrives fast.
• Actors read many handles, posts & queries at once.
• Reads finish the moment their rows arrive.
• Stalled Actor calls recover on their own.
• Webhooks arrive without connection setup delay.

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Fair billing

• You pay only for the rows you get, after filters & duplicate removal.
• Every answer states its charge in X-Xquik-Credits-Charged.
• A retried page is free.
• A low balance trims results instead of failing.
• Bad input costs nothing, since it’s refused before any read.
• AI analysis bills only the posts it analyzed.
• Monitors have 1 flat hourly price, events & webhooks included.
• Monitor Actors bill only the hours a monitor watched.
• Writes cost nothing until they land.
• Saving the same media again is free.
• Removed media isn’t billed, & media_unavailable gives the reason.
• Empty trend history steps are free.
• You can price a bulk job before you run it.
• A post ID listed twice in a batch is billed once.
• Actors charge only for delivered, unique, matching rows.
• A profile shared by several targets is billed once.
• A restarted run never charges twice.
• A spend cap becomes a row cap, & diagnostics still get written.
• Each run shows what it cost in its run report.
• Small runs end with a tip that cuts cost.
• AI Actors don’t bill failed or skipped analyses.
• Each refund points at the exact charge it reverses.

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Reliability

• A one-off X failure doesn’t fail your request.
• Paging stays consistent from one page to the next.
• Paging never loops forever.
• A deadline returns the rows already found, with diagnostics.
• Overload is announced with 503, Retry-After & a reason.
• X-Xquik-Cause tells X’s outages apart from Xquik’s.
• Actors ride out short Xquik outages.
• Actor runs survive restarts without repeats.
• One bad row doesn’t sink a batch.
• Stopped runs keep their rows & their report.
• A run that can’t start still explains itself.
• stopCauses, failedSubtargets & unavailableTargets spell out partial failures.
• Webhooks are signed & replay-safe.
• Webhook deliveries retry until they land, for up to 7 days.
• New events don’t queue behind old retries.
• Webhooks never go to private or local hosts.
• Missed events can be replayed from Last-Event-ID.
• Chat alerts arrive in order without hitting rate limits.
• A write reports success only once it’s live on X.
• Writes don’t post twice.
• Posting paces itself to protect your linked X accounts.
• Replies land on the right post.
• Retrying a write is safe with an idempotency key.
• Problems on X’s side are fixed before they reach your reads.
• Asking again for a page in progress answers 409 with Retry-After.
• Support can see exactly what a request or run returned.

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Built for agents

• Agents reach the whole API through a few MCP tools.
• Paid results are saved under a result_id, so failed scripts never pay twice.
• Large answers fit the agent’s context, capped at 24,000 characters.
• Clients can run reads without prompts & confirm writes.
• 1 stable shape with snake_case, Unix seconds, has_more & next_cursor.
• Sign-in works in modern MCP clients with OAuth 2.1 & PKCE.
• whoami returns an account ID that never changes.
• Agents can pay per call without an account.
• Tool input errors say what to change.
• MCP shows why a post or search failed.
• Pick only the fields you need with fields & omit.
• Actors accept input written for other Actors.
• Output is ready for spreadsheets, with flat columns & engagement totals.
• Datasets describe each field with a title, a description & an example.
• Every run says why it ended & whether to retry.
• Agents can find Xquik on their own through llms.txt & an agent card.
• Rate limits & deprecations come as machine-readable headers.
• Common names for cursor, limit, sort & type just work.
• Cursors fit in a URL & last 90 days.

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Rich data

• Post rows carry note text, edits, Community Notes, reach labels & reply controls.
• Rows carry source apps, media counts & professional account data.
• Cashtag searches add X’s ticker card in searchContext.
• Media comes with variants, alt text, sizes & availability reasons.
• Video subtitles come with timed cues.
• You see when each account reposted a post.
• Posts & bios can be translated into your language.
• Short links resolve, & list rows can carry full profiles.
• Profiles yield emails, phones & links tagged by network.
• Account location comes with country code, accuracy note & username history.
• Trends by place name, country or region ID, promoted trends marked.
• Football games, plays, box scores, rosters, player props & game posts.
• Community Notes contributors & notes, Space replays & job listings as Markdown.
• AI answers carry probabilities, confidence & a question version.
• Changes across analysis runs don’t flip on noise.
• viralAlgorithmScore turns a post’s public counts into 1 comparable number.
• Giveaway draws pick winners with cryptographic randomness.

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Quality checks

• Every field X shows is served, left out on purpose or proven absent.
• Every read is checked live each hour.
• Actor READMEs, schemas & real output name the same fields.
• Docs match the API spec, & every Actor input has a proof run.

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Next steps