An X feed widget that suits the words.
X is the one network where the content is mostly text, and most social media widgets treat it like a photo grid anyway. A good X feed is closer to a pull quote than to a gallery.
X moved reading access to paid API tiers, which changes what a feed integration costs to run. We are working out the sensible shape of it — the honest answer today is that this one is not ready.
What it looks like
Text posts need line length, not crop marks. A compact timeline keeps each post readable at its natural length instead of truncating it into a tile.
Half the studio, one table, four brands in flight. This is what a Tuesday looks like. ↓
Northgate is open. Walk-ins from 5. Fieldnote did the identity and the room photography — go and look at what they did with the menus.
Northgate is open. Walk-ins from 5. Fieldnote did the identity and the room photography — go and look at what they did with the menus.
Applications for September open Monday. New site, new prospectus, same very old buildings.
Applications for September open Monday. New site, new prospectus, same very old buildings.
The API situation, plainly
It would be easy to write this section as though nothing had changed since 2022. Something did, and it is the single most useful thing to tell you before you plan around an X feed.
What you get
- Your own posts and replies from an account you authorise
- Post text, timestamp and permalink
- Attached images and video thumbnails, where a post has them
- Repost and like counts as at the last sync
What it won’t do
- Free reading at any real volume — timeline access sits behind paid tiers now
- Unrestricted keyword and mention search, which used to be the basis of most brand-monitoring walls
- Deleted posts, which vanish from your wall at the next refresh as they should
- Anything from a protected account, including your own if you protect it
How to add a X feed
- 01
Decide what the feed is for
Announcements from your own account behave very differently to a mentions wall. The first is a handful of posts a week; the second is a moderation job.
- 02
Connect the account
Authorise through X. As with every source, we hold a token rather than a password and you can revoke it from X's own settings.
- 03
Choose a text-first layout
Testimonial and carousel layouts give a post room to be read. A tight photo grid will crop your best-written post into three words and an ellipsis.
- 04
Moderate before you publish
If the feed includes mentions rather than only your own posts, turn moderation on. A public mentions wall on a homepage is an open microphone.
A mentions wall is a moderation commitment
Pulling everything that mentions your handle onto your homepage sounds like free social proof. It is, right up until the first person who is having a bad day mentions you, and it lands on the page where you sell things.
- Manual approval means nothing reaches your site until you have read it
- Auto-approve suits your own account, where you already control what gets posted
- Hiding a post removes it from the wall without any drama on the platform
- Consider whether the wall belongs on a campaign page rather than your homepage
X questions, answered
The platform's own embed still exists and remains the free route for a single timeline. It also means X's markup, X's typography and X's script on your page. The trade you are making with an aggregator is control over layout, moderation and performance.
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