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Get Following

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

Get Following Retrieves a list of Users followed by a specific User by their ID. [GET /2/users/{id}/following]

Name on the gateway: x_api__get_users_following · read-only.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`id` required	`string`	Unique identifier of a User
`max_results`	`integer`	The maximum number of users to return.
`pagination_token`	`string`	The next_token or previous_token from a previous response, to fetch that page.…
`user.fields`	`array`	A comma separated list of User fields to display.
`expansions`	`array`	A comma separated list of fields to expand.
`post.fields`	`array`	A comma separated list of Post fields to display.

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__get_users_following",
  "arguments": {
    "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 get following tool with id set to ….