Follow User

An MCP tool from the X (Twitter) API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Follow User Causes the authenticated user to follow a specific User by their ID. [POST /2/users/{id}/following]

Name on the gateway: x_api__follow_user · may change things.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`id` required	`string`	Unique identifier of a User
`target_user_id` required	`string`

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments

{
  "name": "x_api__follow_user",
  "arguments": {
    "id": "…",
    "target_user_id": "…"
  }
}

Or connect the X (Twitter) API server directly, which lists 258 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http hj-x-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/x-api \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Use the follow user tool with id set to ….