The official Twitter API now costs $5,000/month for full access. Specrom gives developers and data teams structured tweet data, profile lookups, and keyword feeds — via REST API or CSV — without a Twitter developer account, without rate limit headaches, and without an enterprise contract. Starting at $49.
// Twitter API v2 Pro: $5,000/month // Required for: full-archive search, // high-volume user lookup, filtered stream // Specrom: same data, REST API curl -X GET "https://api.specrom.com/tweets" \ -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \ -d '{"q": "#fintech", "from": "2024-01-01", "lang": "en", "limit": 1000}' // Response: structured JSON { "total": 84320, "tweets": [ { "tweet_id": "...", "text": "...", "likes": 847, /* 20+ fields */ } ] }
Specrom's API provides programmatic access to Twitter data across four endpoint categories. All endpoints return consistent, normalized JSON. All are available without a Twitter developer account.
// /tweets/search — keyword + date range GET /tweets/search ?q="climate tech" &from=2024-06-01 &lang=en &min_likes=5 &limit=1000 &cursor=eyJsYXN0X2lkIjoi... // /profiles/lookup — batch GET /profiles/lookup ?handles=naval,paulg,sama &fields=all // /bio-search — keyword in bio GET /bio-search ?q="seed investor fintech" &min_followers=1000 // /monitors — create recurring feed POST /monitors { "keywords": ["#fintech"], "frequency": "daily", "webhook": "https://your.app/hook" }
API access is provisioned manually — submit your use case and we'll configure credentials and rate limits appropriate for your volume. Self-serve portal coming soon.
Tell us what endpoints you need, your expected monthly query volume, and what you're building. We'll confirm your API tier and pricing within 24 hours and issue credentials once payment is confirmed.
You'll receive an API key and a link to the API documentation. The base URL, authentication pattern, and response schemas are documented with examples for every endpoint. Standard HTTP client — no SDK required, though Python and Node examples are provided.
Make your first call with a single curl command or any HTTP client. Results come back as normalized JSON with consistent field names across all call types. For high-volume use cases, we'll advise on pagination strategy and rate limit management.
Structured Twitter data with a stable API contract unlocks a range of product and analysis use cases.
Build internal brand monitoring, competitor tracking, or market signal dashboards on top of the keyword search and monitor endpoints. Use webhooks to push new tweets into your application as they're collected rather than polling on a schedule.
Pull domain-specific tweet datasets for fine-tuning language models, training sentiment classifiers, or building social media NLP benchmarks. Use keyword search for topical filtering and engagement fields as quality signals. Schedule recurring pulls to keep training data fresh.
Enrich contact records with live Twitter profile data via the /profiles/lookup endpoint. Integrate into your CRM sync pipeline: fetch follower counts, bio text, and website URLs for contacts that have a Twitter handle field populated.
Automate research dataset collection with scheduled monitor endpoints. Define your keyword sets once, configure S3 delivery, and get a continuously growing, deduplicated tweet corpus — without manual data collection steps in your research workflow.
Here's how Specrom compares to Twitter's official API tiers for the use cases most developers and data teams actually have.
// Feature comparison at a glance Twitter Pro Specrom Historical search ✓ $5K/mo ✓ from $49 Bio search ✗ ✓ Bulk profiles ✓ rate-ltd ✓ batched Keyword monitor complex POST /monitors No dev account ✗ ✓ Monthly contract required not required // Response schema: Specrom normalization { "tweet_id": "string", // always present "text": "string", // always present "likes": integer, // 0 if unavailable "hashtags": "array" // [] if none }
No. Specrom provides its own API key for accessing our data service. You don't need to register with Twitter, apply for developer access, or manage any Twitter credentials.
None specific. The Specrom API is a standard REST API — any HTTP client in any language works. We provide ready-made code examples in Python, Node.js, and curl. If you can make an HTTP GET request, you can use the API.
Rate limits are configured per API key based on your expected volume. Unlike the Twitter API, you won't receive random rate limit errors during normal operation — limits are set based on your plan, not shared across all API users. If you approach your tier limit, we notify you in advance.
Yes. We provide a test API key with a limited dataset for integration testing before you go live. The schema is identical to production so your parsing code transfers without changes.
Yes, subject to our data license terms. Commercial use — including building products that display or incorporate the data — is covered under our commercial license. Contact us at quote time and we'll confirm the right license tier for your use case.
We target 99.5% monthly uptime on the API endpoints. For production integrations, we recommend implementing retry logic with exponential backoff for the small percentage of requests that may need a retry. Status updates are communicated by email.
Typically within 24–48 hours of payment confirmation. API key, base URL, and documentation link are delivered by email. For complex integrations, we schedule a brief onboarding call to walk through the endpoints relevant to your use case.
Tell us what you're building and the endpoints you need. We'll respond within 24 hours with a sample response and pricing for your volume.