Honest writing on growing on X.
Guides, comparisons, and reply-style breakdowns. From the team that runs the agent on its own accounts every day.
How to clip a video on X (and who actually earns)
X shipped native clipping on 9 November 2026. The flow takes four taps, the 30% cap only bites below 3:20, and both payouts need Original Content Rewards.
·Read the guide →X Ads API: the deadline its own docs never mention
The X Ads API tells you to sign every request with OAuth 1.0a. X retires OAuth 1.0a on 31 January 2027, and not one Ads API page mentions the date.
·→Article·10 min readX Calls API: the 10 endpoints X never announced
The X Calls API is live: 10 endpoints, PCM16 audio over a WebSocket, and three OAuth scopes that appear nowhere in X's documented scope list.
·→Article·10 min readX Custom Audiences API: when a list will not target
Matched 300 users and still cannot target them? The X Custom Audiences API floor is 100 users, the Ads UI floor is 500, and one page states both.
·→Article·10 min readX API OpenAPI spec: the one endpoint with no key
The X API OpenAPI spec is a 1.3 MB file at api.x.com/2/openapi.json, free and unauthenticated. It is also a different file every time you fetch it.
·→Article·10 min readX API analytics: 23 metrics and no price row
X has a working post analytics endpoint with 23 metrics, including unfollows. It is missing from the metrics guide, from the rate card, and from two of its own doc pages.
·→Article·11 min readX API DM: 43 ways one send gets refused
The X API v2 DM endpoints now return 43 named refusal types, all on the same 403. What each one means, the 1,440-a-day ceiling, and what reading an inbox costs.
·→Article·9 min readX API followers: the request that can cost $10
Follower reads bill per user at $0.010, pages go to 1,000, and two owned routes exist in the spec with no doc page, no SDK method and no rate limit.
·→Article·9 min readX API usage: the dollar figure the API withholds
Two endpoints report X API usage. One counts Posts, one counts dollars left, and neither tells you what you actually spent. One is missing from the docs index.
·→Article·10 min readX API user lookup: six routes and a $1 request
Six routes return an X user profile, the live spec exposes 27 user fields, and X's own integration guide documents 11 of them with three dead parameter names.
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