Analysis
Twitter brand monitoring API for X mentions with AI
Monitor brand mentions on X with AI. Get each post’s relevance, attitude toward your brand, and customer relationship. Costs 2 credits per analyzed post.
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Twitter brand monitoring API for X mentions with AI
2 credits per analyzed post · All plans from $0.00012/credit · Supports guest paid reads
POST /api/v1/x/analysis/brand.
Name the brand in
analysis.targets, with its products and handles as aliases.
Name the brand
Put the brand inanalysis.targets, with product names, handles, and common
misspellings as aliases. Add analysis.context when the name has other
meanings, such as a fruit or a city.
relevance is low for namesakes and posts that only share a word with the
brand. Filter rows on relevance before you count answers. The snippets keep
posts from 0.5.
Read the brand answers
results[].answers holds each decision by question ID.
sentiment judges the attitude toward your brand, not the post’s general mood.
Negative posts from customers are the support queue. Posts from prospects are
sales leads.
Track a brand over time
analysisSummary.targets holds each target’s mentions, its share of posts,
its engagement, its category counts in choices, and the most engaged posts
per category in top. Store it per run to chart a trend.
Name each competitor as its own target to compare brands in 1 call. For more
posts than 1 call returns, send the same body again with cursor set to
next_cursor.
Monitor replies & quotes
SendrepliesTo with a launch post’s URL to read the replies to it. Send
quotesOf to read its quotes. Send username to read 1 account’s posts, such
as a competitor’s support account.
Use another brand preset
Setanalysis.preset to ask other ready questions about your brand, at the
same price. Each needs analysis.targets.
Pick the posts to analyze
SendtweetIds, texts, or a search, never more than 1. Sending none, or more
than 1, returns 400 invalid_input.
A search combines every search field you send into 1 X search.
queryType sets the order, Latest or Top. For more posts than 1 call
returns, send the same search again with cursor set to next_cursor. Stop
when has_next_page is false.
Compare with an earlier answer
Send theresults of an earlier call as baseline to see what changed. Each
row in the new results gets monitor, and analysisSummary.monitor counts
the posts per status. The comparison costs nothing extra.
id, or tweet.id, and its answers. Send
whole result rows when you have them. Their monitor carries the settings’
fingerprint, so rows from other settings show as not_comparable.
A decision counts as changed only when the new answer clearly leaves the old
one, so near ties between calls stay
unchanged. Keep analysis the same
between calls for comparable answers.
Budget the analysis
Each analyzed post costs 2 credits. Each text intexts costs the same. Posts
in unanalyzed cost nothing.
When credits cover fewer posts than you asked for, fewer come back. The posts
left over appear in unanalyzed with insufficient_credits. If credits cover
no post, the call returns 402 insufficient_credits.
Body
string[]
Up to 100 post IDs or post URLs, such as
x.com/nasa/status/20. A post named
twice is analyzed once. Send tweetIds, texts, or a search, not more than 1.string
X search to analyze, with the operators of Search Tweets.
string
Analyze 1 account’s posts. Send a handle, with or without
@, or a profile URL.string
Analyze a public List’s posts. Send its ID or URL.
string
Analyze the quotes of 1 post. Send its ID or URL.
string
Analyze the replies in 1 post’s conversation. Send its ID or URL.
string
Inclusive start of the search, such as
2026-09-25T00:00:00Z. Unix seconds
also work. A time without an offset is UTC.string
Exclusive end of the search. Unix seconds also work. A time without an offset
is UTC.
string
Search order:
Latest or Top. Defaults to Latest.integer
Maximum posts to analyze from the search. Range:
1-100. Defaults to 20.
Credits can return fewer.string
The
next_cursor of the page before. Send the same search with it.string[]
Up to 100 texts of your own, such as drafts. Each must contain words. Reads
nothing from X.
object[]
Rows of an earlier answer to compare with, up to 10,000, such as its
results. Each needs the post’s id, or tweet.id, and its answers. Each
new result’s monitor says whether the post is new, changed, or unchanged.
The comparison costs nothing extra.object
Optional settings. Leave it out to ask the route’s own questions.
Headers
string
Full account API key. An OAuth bearer token also works.
string
Send
Bearer xq_your_guest_key_here for an active paid_reads guest key.string
required
Must be
application/json. The body can be up to 256 KB.Response
200 OK
object[]
Each analyzed post with its answers. Each row costs 2 credits.
object[]
Each post without an analysis. These cost nothing.
object
Totals of the answers across the analyzed posts.
boolean
Whether the search has more posts. Always
false for tweetIds and texts.string
Send it as
cursor with the same search for the next page. Empty when there is none.400 Invalid input
401 Unauthenticated
Anonymous requests getWWW-Authenticate: Bearer and a guest wallet checkout action. This is not a Payment challenge.
x-api-key header value.
402 Payment required
Full account keys can receiveno_subscription, subscription_inactive, no_credits, or insufficient_credits with account payment options. Guest keys receive only the guest top-up action.
The failed request creates no checkout. Ask the user to confirm before calling any checkout or top-up route.
403 Protected account
502 X API unavailable
503 Service busy
Retry-After header, then send the request again.
The request costs nothing.
429 Rate limit exceeded
Retry-After header before retrying.
424 Dependency failed
Brand monitoring API questions
How do I monitor brand mentions on X?
Search the brand’s names inquery and name the brand in analysis.targets.
Each row in results holds the post and its relevance, sentiment, and
experience answers.
How do I find customers who need help?
Keep rows whosesentiment is negative and whose experience is customer.
For the problem and its urgency, set analysis.preset to complaints.
Can I compare my brand with competitors?
Yes. Name each brand as its own target.analysisSummary.targets counts the
mentions and sentiment of each one.
Does it skip posts about namesakes?
The AI answersrelevance for every post. A namesake, such as a person who
shares the brand’s name, gets a low relevance. Filter on it.
How much does brand monitoring cost?
Each analyzed post costs 2 credits. Posts inunanalyzed and refused requests
cost nothing.
Does this replace X’s official API?
No. This page documents Xquik, an independent third-party service. It does not document X’s official API.Next steps. Sentiment analysis reads the attitude of any post, or Classify posts asks your own questions.