X Twitter MCP server

The X(Twitter) MCP server enables you to create, manage, and publish X/Twitter posts directly through Claude chat, providing a seamless integration between your AI assistant and your Twitter account.

Installation Options

Quick Setup via Smithery

The easiest way to install the X(Twitter) MCP Server for Claude Desktop is automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install x-mcp --client claude

Manual Installation

If you prefer to install manually, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/x-mcp.git

2. Install UV globally using Homebrew:

brew install uv

3. Create the Claude configuration file:

For MacOS: Create claude_desktop_config.json in ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/

For Windows: Create claude_desktop_config.json in %APPDATA%/Claude/

4. Add this configuration to the file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "x_mcp": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/path/to/x-mcp",
        "run",
        "x-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TWITTER_API_KEY": "your_api_key",
        "TWITTER_API_SECRET": "your_api_secret",
        "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_access_token",
        "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET": "your_access_token_secret"
      }
    }
  }
}

Setting Up Twitter API Credentials

To use this MCP server, you'll need Twitter API credentials:

1. Go to the X API Developer Portal
2. Create a new project
3. In User Authentication Settings:
   • Set up with Read and Write permissions
   • Choose Web App type
   • Set Callback URL to http://localhost/
   • Set Website URL to http://example.com/
4. Generate and copy all keys and tokens from the Keys and Tokens section
5. Update your config file with these credentials

After configuration, quit Claude completely and reopen it.

Using the MCP Server

Once installed and configured, you can control your Twitter account with natural language commands to Claude:

• Post a tweet: "Tweet 'Just learned how to tweet through AI - mind blown! 🤖✨'"
• Create a thread: "Create a thread about the history of pizza"
• Manage drafts: "Show me my draft tweets"
• Publish drafts: "Publish this draft!"
• Delete drafts: "Delete that draft"

Troubleshooting

If you encounter issues:

• Verify UV is installed globally (if not, uninstall with pip uninstall uv and reinstall with brew install uv)
• Find the UV path with which uv and replace "command": "uv" with the full path
• Double-check all X/Twitter credentials for accuracy
• Ensure the x-mcp path in your config matches the actual repository location

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 "x_mcp" '{"command":"uv","args":["--directory","/path/to/x-mcp","run","x-mcp"],"env":{"TWITTER_API_KEY":"your_api_key","TWITTER_API_SECRET":"your_api_secret","TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN":"your_access_token","TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET":"your_access_token_secret"}}'

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": {
        "x_mcp": {
            "command": "uv",
            "args": [
                "--directory",
                "/path/to/x-mcp",
                "run",
                "x-mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "TWITTER_API_KEY": "your_api_key",
                "TWITTER_API_SECRET": "your_api_secret",
                "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_access_token",
                "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET": "your_access_token_secret"
            }
        }
    }
}

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": {
        "x_mcp": {
            "command": "uv",
            "args": [
                "--directory",
                "/path/to/x-mcp",
                "run",
                "x-mcp"
            ],
            "env": {
                "TWITTER_API_KEY": "your_api_key",
                "TWITTER_API_SECRET": "your_api_secret",
                "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_access_token",
                "TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET": "your_access_token_secret"
            }
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect