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Get User Mentions

Retrieves tweets that mention the specified Twitter user. Typically returns ~20 results per page. You can request additional results by sending another request to the same endpoint using cursor parameter.

get/twitter/user/{username}/mentions

Path parameters

usernamestring required

Username of the target user profile without @.

Query parameters

cursorstring

Cursor value obtained from next_cursor response property. Use this parameter to retrieve additional pages. Omit this parameter to retrieve the first page.

Response

Request succeeded

next_cursorstring required

Cursor value used to obtain the subsequent page. To be passed to the same endpoint as 'cursor' query parameter. Value may contain spaces and other special characters and therefore must be url-encoded to avoid any errors

Example response

{
  "tweets": [
    {
      "tweet_created_at": "2023-12-13T05:39:09.000000Z",
      "id_str": "1050118621198921728",
      "source": "Twitter Web Client",
      "in_reply_to_status_id_str": "1051222721923756032",
      "in_reply_to_user_id_str": "6253282",
      "in_reply_to_screen_name": "twitterapi",
      "user": {
        "id_str": "6253282",
        "name": "Twitter API",
        "screen_name": "twitterapi",
        "location": "San Francisco, CA",
        "url": "https://developer.twitter.com",
        "description": "The Real Twitter API.",
        "protected": true,
        "followers_count": 21,
        "friends_count": 32,
        "listed_count": 9274,
        "favourites_count": 13,
        "statuses_count": 42,
        "created_at": "2009-06-02T20:12:29.000000Z",
        "profile_banner_url": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_banners/819797/1348102824",
        "profile_image_url_https": "https://abs.twimg.com/sticky/default_profile_images/default_profile_normal.png"
      },
      "lang": "en",
      "quoted_status_id_str": "1050119905717055488",
      "quote_count": 33,
      "reply_count": 30,
      "retweet_count": 160,
      "favorite_count": 295,
      "views_count": 32377,
      "bookmark_count": 19,
      "entities": {
        "poll": {
          "end_datetime": "2025-03-12T19:47:12.000000Z",
          "duration_minutes": 1440,
          "choices": [
            {
              "label": "Yes"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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