Cursor

Cursor’s agent can search tweets and read profiles, timelines, replies, followers and trends through the hosted twitterapi.io MCP server at https://mcp.twitterapi.io/mcp. All 12 tools are read-only.

Option 1: the plugin

The plugin bundles the MCP server, a research skill (which tool to use for which question, search operators, citing tweets) and a rule that tells the agent to treat tweet content as data. Source and install instructions: github.com/kaitoInfra/twitterapi-io-cursor-plugin.

Option 2: add the server to mcp.json

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json, or to .cursor/mcp.json in a project:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "twitterapi-io": {
      "url": "https://mcp.twitterapi.io/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${env:TWITTERAPI_IO_API_KEY}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Authenticate

Either way, pick one:

API key. Get a key on the dashboard, set it in the environment Cursor starts from, and restart Cursor:
export TWITTERAPI_IO_API_KEY="your_key"
OAuth. Leave the variable unset. The first time the agent calls a tool, Cursor shows a sign-in prompt for twitterapi.io.

Example prompts

“What are developers on X saying about Cursor this week? Cite the top tweets.”
“Summarize the replies to this tweet: (paste an x.com/…/status/… link).”
“Compare the follower counts and recent posting topics of @vercel and @netlify.”

Each tool call costs the same credits as the endpoint it calls; see Pricing.

Get Started

Integrations

User Endpoint

Tweet Endpoint

List Endpoint

Communities Endpoint

Trend Endpoint

Spaces Endpoint

My Endpoint

Post & Action Endpoint V2(Back Online)

Community Action V2

Webhook/Websocket Filter Rule

Stream Endpoint

Option 1: the plugin

Option 2: add the server to mcp.json

Authenticate

Example prompts

​Option 1: the plugin

​Option 2: add the server to mcp.json

​Authenticate

​Example prompts

Option 1: the plugin

Option 2: add the server to mcp.json

Authenticate

Example prompts