Link previewers
Twitterbot
X Corp.medium confidence
X's fetcher that retrieves card metadata (Twitter Cards / Open Graph) to render link previews when a URL is shared on X.
Dossier
- Operator
- X Corp.
- Documentation
- None published
- robots.txt token
Twitterbot- Feeds
- link preview
- Follows robots.txt
- Not documentedX developer docs (cards getting-started) were not reachable (402/404); third-party sources conflict on robots.txt.
- How to verify
- No published method
- Names in our logs
twitterbot- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 40
- Days active
- 7 / 93
- First seen
- 23 Jul 2026
- Last seen
- 23 Oct 2026
Returningother_bot
Identity check claimed vs verified
- No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- knownagents.comknownagents.com/agents/twitterbot