Known bots · X
What is Twitterbot?
X’s fetcher for link previews. tidekeeper knows it by its User-Agent.
- Run by
- X
- Reads for
- Link preview
- Known by
- “twitterbot” in its User-Agent, and Twitterbot in robots.txt
- Its addresses
- X publishes no list, so a read is known by its name alone: anyone can send it.
Keep it out
User-agent: Twitterbot Disallow: /
Or only part of the site: Disallow: /private/ under the same User-agent line.
On tidekeeper.eu
Twitterbot read tidekeeper.eu 28 times in the last 30 days, as tidekeeper counts its own site, from its server.