We don't just write about the Twitter/X API. We run an alternative to it.

The Sorsa editorial team is the group of engineers behind Sorsa API, a REST API that gives developers affordable, approval-free access to real-time and historical X/Twitter data. We've been doing this since 2022, first as TweetScout API and, after a 2025 rebrand, as Sorsa, a product of Scouts Labs Inc. Everything we publish comes out of the same work we do all day: pulling X data at scale, fighting rate limits, keeping pipelines alive through platform changes, and helping teams get off the official API without going broke.

Who writes here

We publish under one team byline rather than individual names. We're a small, focused crew spread across time zones, and we'd rather let the work speak than build a wall of personal brands. When you read a guide here, it has been written and checked by people who have actually hit the problem in production, not by someone paraphrasing documentation they've never run.

If you've ever burned an afternoon on an undocumented rate-limit quirk or watched an X API invoice balloon past what your project even earns, you've been where our readers are. So have we. That's the whole reason this blog exists.

What we actually do

Building and operating an alternative X/Twitter API means we live in this problem space:

  • We serve X/Twitter data to developers through a REST API with full data parity with the official X API v2: profiles, tweets, search, lists, communities, and verification, across 40 endpoints.
  • We work with the official X/Twitter API constantly as the thing we benchmark against and migrate people away from, including through its 2023 pricing overhaul that put meaningful access behind a $5,000/month paywall and broke a lot of pipelines.
  • We help teams move off the official API onto something they can actually afford, at up to 50x lower cost and 20x higher rate limits (a flat 20 requests/second on every plan), with a typical migration taking under two hours because the endpoints and JSON are deliberately similar.
  • We built Sorsa read-only by design: data retrieval and verification only, no posting or account actions, which keeps the service stable and abuse-resistant.

By the numbers

  • Since 2022 building X/Twitter data infrastructure (originally TweetScout API, rebranded Sorsa in 2025)
  • 5B+ requests served in production
  • 2,000+ developers and 100+ companies building on the API
  • 99.9% uptime with zero major outages, tracked on our public status page, and ~300ms p50 latency
  • Up to 50x cheaper than the official X/Twitter API, with 20x higher rate limits
  • 40 endpoints with full data parity with the official X API v2

How we write and verify

Our authority is in the method, not in a byline. For every article:

  • We test claims against the live endpoints, both the official API and our own, rather than trusting old blog posts.
  • We cite primary sources first: official platform docs and announcements.
  • We date everything and update it when pricing, rate limits, or policies change, because in this space they change often.
  • When we use a client example, we anonymize it. In data work, naming a customer can expose them, so we describe the situation and the outcome, never the company.
  • We say when a number is an estimate or a range. We'd rather give you an honest "up to 50x cheaper" than fake precision.

In our words

"We write about the things we run into on the job. If we're describing a rate-limit problem or a migration off the official API, it's because we've shipped it ourselves. The goal is simple: save you the afternoon we already lost figuring it out."

Areas of expertise

Twitter/X API, alternative API providers, web scraping, rate-limit optimization, REST APIs, Python integrations, data pipelines, API migration, historical and real-time social data, AI agent and LLM data feeds, cost optimization, ETL.

Work with the API behind the blog

Most of what we write about, you can try directly. Spin up a key and pull live X/Twitter data in about three minutes on the Sorsa API playground, or read the documentation to see the endpoints for yourself. Questions or an edge case we haven't covered? Reach the team on Discord or through our contact page.