X/Twitter Research Skill
Agentic Twitter/X search and thread analysis from the terminal, with no $100/month X API needed.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
I can help you research what people are talking about regarding AI safety. You'd want to search for relevant discussions and see what's trending. Do you want recent posts only or a broader historical look? Are you interested in expert takes or grassroots sentiment? There are a lot of tweets about AI safety, so if you could narrow down the specific angle you're most interested in, I could help synthesize the main themes.
X RESEARCH REPORT: AI Safety Sentiment
→ DATA COLLECTION
Time window: Last 7 days (Aug 24-31)
Posts analyzed: 487 relevant tweets (filtered by AI + safety keywords)
Engagement total: 14.2M impressions, 820K interactions
Top voices: Mix of researchers (45%), policymakers (20%), builders (18%), others (17%)
→ SENTIMENT BREAKDOWN
Positive (we can solve this): 31% of posts • cautiously optimistic tone
Negative (doom-focused): 38% of posts • warnings about AGI risks
Neutral (factual discussion): 21% of posts • debate, no stance
Sarcastic/critique of discourse: 10% of posts • meta-commentary
→ TOP 3 THEMES (by post volume & engagement)
1. "Alignment research bottleneck" (142 posts, 2.3M impressions)
Common claim: "Not enough researchers focused on interpretability"
Refrain: Key labs need 10x hiring in safety teams
Notable quote: "Lab A claims progress but methodology is closed-box"
2. "Regulation timing urgency" (118 posts, 1.8M impressions)
Common claim: "EU AI Act lags behind capability acceleration"
Refrain: Governance frameworks outdated within 6 months
Notable quote: "By the time rules pass, the tech is obsolete"
3. "Corporate accountability gap" (97 posts, 1.6M impressions)
Common claim: "Self-regulation doesn't work; independent audits needed"
Refrain: Open-source models bypass safety constraints
Notable quote: "Accountability only happens after incident, not before"
→ INFLUENCER HIGHLIGHTS
Researcher A (15k followers, high resonance): Posted thread on interpretability costs
Policy Org B (84k followers): Analysis of pending legislation vs. labs' capabilities
Builder C (3.2k followers, engaged community): Practical safety guardrails for production systems
→ ACTION INSIGHT
Conversation gaps: Underrepresented – concrete safety solutions (mostly problem-focused)
Opportunity: Your content on working safety implementations would stand out (low noise)About this skill
name: x-research-skill description: Use when Agentic Twitter/X search and thread analysis from the terminal, with no $100/month X API needed.
X/Twitter Research Skill
Built by rohunvora, this skill uses TLS emulation to pull tweets, threads, and user timelines directly into Claude Code, returning structured content including replies, quote tweets, and engagement context, so you can research a topic or user without paying for the X API.
What you get
- Public GitHub repo (rohunvora/x-research-skill). Requires Bun and an X_BEARER_TOKEN env variable.
Customize your output
- Point it at any topic, user, or thread
- adjust how many tweets to pull and what to summarize.
Example output
Pulling the last 50 relevant tweets on a topic, summarizing sentiment and the most repeated pain points, demoed in the video.
Best for
Marketers, builders, and researchers mining X for audience language and sentiment.
SKILL.md preview
---
name: x-research-skill
description: Use when researching a topic or user's activity on X/Twitter directly from the terminal without paying for API access.
version: 1.0.0
category: Research & Data / Social Listening
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
- research-data
- social-listening
- standard
---
# X/Twitter Research Skill
Pulls tweets, threads, and user timelines using TLS emulation instead of the paid API, returning structured content including replies, quote tweets, and engagement context for terminal-based research.
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