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Search tweets and Twitter/X content using Exa advanced search. Limited filter support - text and domain filters are NOT supported.

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Web Search Advanced - Tweet Category

Tool Restriction (Critical)

ONLY use web_search_advanced_exa with category: "tweet". Do NOT use other categories or tools.

Filter Restrictions (Critical)

The tweet category has LIMITED filter support. The following parameters are NOT supported and will cause 400 errors:

  • includeText - NOT SUPPORTED
  • excludeText - NOT SUPPORTED
  • includeDomains - NOT SUPPORTED
  • excludeDomains - NOT SUPPORTED
  • moderation - NOT SUPPORTED (causes 500 server error)

Supported Parameters

Core

  • query (required)
  • numResults
  • type ("auto", "fast", "deep", "neural")

Date filtering (ISO 8601) - Use these instead of text filters!

  • startPublishedDate / endPublishedDate
  • startCrawlDate / endCrawlDate

Content extraction

  • textMaxCharacters / contextMaxCharacters
  • enableHighlights / highlightsNumSentences / highlightsPerUrl / highlightsQuery
  • enableSummary / summaryQuery

Additional

  • additionalQueries - useful for hashtag variations
  • livecrawl / livecrawlTimeout - use "preferred" for recent tweets

Token Isolation (Critical)

Never run Exa searches in main context. Always spawn Task agents:

  • Agent calls web_search_advanced_exa with category: "tweet"
  • Agent merges + deduplicates results before presenting
  • Agent returns distilled output (brief markdown or compact JSON)
  • Main context stays clean regardless of search volume

When to Use

Use this category when you need:

  • Social discussions on a topic
  • Product announcements from company accounts
  • Developer opinions and experiences
  • Trending topics and community sentiment
  • Expert takes and threads

Examples

Recent tweets on a topic:

web_search_advanced_exa {
  "query": "Claude Code MCP experience",
  "category": "tweet",
  "startPublishedDate": "2025-01-01",
  "numResults": 20,
  "type": "auto",
  "livecrawl": "preferred"
}

Search with specific keywords (put keywords in query, not includeText):

web_search_advanced_exa {
  "query": "launching announcing new open source release",
  "category": "tweet",
  "startPublishedDate": "2025-12-01",
  "numResults": 15,
  "type": "auto"
}

Developer sentiment (use specific query terms instead of excludeText):

web_search_advanced_exa {
  "query": "developer experience DX frustrating painful",
  "category": "tweet",
  "numResults": 20,
  "type": "deep",
  "livecrawl": "preferred"
}

Output Format

Return:

  1. Results (tweet content, author handle, date, engagement if visible)
  2. Sources (Tweet URLs)
  3. Notes (sentiment summary, notable accounts, threads vs single tweets)

Important: Be aware that tweet content can be informal, sarcastic, or context-dependent.