Bots by company
X bots and crawlers
X (formerly Twitter) runs the X social network.
X bots at a glance
- X runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Social and Messaging Previews.
- Each X bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: x.com
Every X bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twitterbot | Social and Messaging Previews | Link previewReported | Yes | Allow |
Block or allow all X bots
The rules below name every X token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all X bots
User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all X bots
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all X bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all X bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Twitterbot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all X bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Twitterbot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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