Twitter MCP server

This MCP server for Twitter allows you to programmatically manage your Twitter account, accessing features like retrieving timelines, fetching tweets, searching hashtags, sending direct messages, and creating or deleting posts.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11 or higher
• uvicorn (for running the server)
• Twitter API credentials

Installation

Follow these steps to set up the Twitter MCP server:

1. Clone the repository to your local machine
2. Install the required dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a .env file in the root directory of the project with your Twitter API credentials, using the format provided in .env.example

Running the Server

To start the Twitter MCP server, run the following command:

uv run --with twikit --with mcp Path\src\tweet_service.py

Configuration via JSON

You can also configure the server using a JSON configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "twitter-mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "Path\\src\\",
        "run",
        "--with",
        "twikit",
        "--with",
        "mcp",
        "tweet_service.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        "COOKIES_PATH": "Path\\cookies.json",
        "ENV_FILE": ".env"  
      }
    }
  }
}

Available Features

The Twitter MCP server provides access to several Twitter functions:

• Timeline Access: Retrieve your Twitter home timeline
• User Tweets: Fetch tweets from any public Twitter user
• Hashtag Search: Search for tweets containing specific hashtags (e.g., #AI)
• Replies and Summaries: Get replies to tweets and summarized insights
• Direct Messages: Send and receive Twitter DMs
• Tweet Management: Create new tweets and delete existing ones programmatically

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "twitter-mcp" '{"command":"uv","args":["--directory","Path\\src\\","run","--with","twikit","--with","mcp","tweet_service.py"],"env":{"COOKIES_PATH":"Path\\cookies.json","ENV_FILE":".env"}}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "twitter-mcp": {
            "command": "uv",
            "args": [
                "--directory",
                "Path\\src\\",
                "run",
                "--with",
                "twikit",
                "--with",
                "mcp",
                "tweet_service.py"
            ],
            "env": {
                "COOKIES_PATH": "Path\\cookies.json",
                "ENV_FILE": ".env"
            }
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "twitter-mcp": {
            "command": "uv",
            "args": [
                "--directory",
                "Path\\src\\",
                "run",
                "--with",
                "twikit",
                "--with",
                "mcp",
                "tweet_service.py"
            ],
            "env": {
                "COOKIES_PATH": "Path\\cookies.json",
                "ENV_FILE": ".env"
            }
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect