Twitterbot
What is Twitterbot?
About
Twitterbot crawls web pages to generate Twitter Cards, fetching metadata like titles, descriptions, and images for link previews when URLs are shared on X (formerly Twitter). You can see how often Twitterbot visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.
Expected Behavior
Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.
Type
Detail
Operated By | X |
Last Updated | 2 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Top Visited Website Categories
Robots.txt
Should I Block Twitterbot?
Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.
How Do I Block Twitterbot?
You can block Twitterbot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.
User Agent String | Twitterbot/1.0 |
# robots.txt
# This should block Twitterbot
User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: /