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SocialData API
A commercial API that returns X/Twitter data, search, user profiles, and tweets, without going through the official X API. It is purely programmatic: requests need a paid API key, billed per tweet retrieved, and there is no free browsing interface. Relevant when you need dependable X search results in volume and have a budget for it.
Why it’s useful & how it works
SocialData gives developers programmatic access to X/Twitter search, user profiles, and timelines without needing to go through the official X API or pay X's pricing. Requests require a paid API key and are billed at a flat rate per result. There is no browsing interface; it is purely a data API for building applications or running research at volume. For Echo users this means it can power inline X search results when other free sources come up empty, provided a budget is in place.
What’s inside
Covers the full public X search index and user timeline data in real time. There is no archive component; results reflect current public X content. Pricing is $0.0002 per tweet or profile returned.
API access
https://api.socialdata.tools/twitter/search?query= <q> ; /twitter/user/<id> (Bearer key)
An API key is required (usually free); see the endpoints above for where to get one.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Responded HTTP 200 638 ms
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Responded HTTP 200 1.5 s
- API, direct
- Blocked HTTP 401 561 ms
- API, through a proxy
- Blocked HTTP 401 1.6 s
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
Programmatic API access (a key may be required, see the API tag).