Inboxes

X Mentions

Someone complaining about you in public is worth answering faster than a direct message. The X Mentions inbox polls for mentions of your account, threads them into conversations, and lets an agent reply as a tweet from the ordinary reply box.

An X Mentions conversation. The mention thread reads like any other conversation, and the reply box posts a tweet.
An X Mentions conversation. The mention thread reads like any other conversation, and the reply box posts a tweet.

Connecting your X app

You connect your own X developer app rather than a shared one, so your account keeps its own rate limits and permissions.

Connecting an X app: register the callback URL on your app, then paste the app's client id and secret.
Connecting an X app: register the callback URL on your app, then paste the app's client id and secret.

Access tokens refresh on their own once connected, so a working inbox does not need reconnecting.

How mentions arrive

Mentions are polled rather than pushed, so a mention appears within the polling interval rather than instantly.

A mention thread becomes one conversation.

Replying

Type in the reply box and the reply posts as a tweet.