Get recent tweets from a Twitter/X user.
AI agents call twitter_user_tweets to retrieve information from Twitter/X MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves publicly available tweet data from a user's timeline. It performs no modifications, deletions, or external operations—it only queries and returns existing information. This is a standard Read category operation with minimal risk, as the worst-case misuse would be excessive data retrieval or scraping, which has low blast radius compared to content creation or deletion tools on the same server.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'twitter_user_tweets' and description 'Get recent tweets from a Twitter/X user' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects. The verb 'Get' and the fact that it retrieves existing public tweet data confirms this is a read-only query.
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Get recent tweets from a Twitter/X user. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Twitter/X MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Twitter/X MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for twitter_user_tweets: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Twitter/X MCP Server. Nothing to install.
twitter_user_tweets is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the twitter_user_tweets rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for twitter_user_tweets. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
twitter_user_tweets is provided by the Twitter/X MCP Server MCP server (miles0sage/twitter-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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