# Twitter Profile Lookup for @tobi (Tobi Lütke)

> Twitter Profile Lookup for @tobi (Tobi Lütke) is a paid API for AI agents from twitter.surf.cascade.fyi, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches the public Twitter/X profile data for @tobi (Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke), including bio, metrics, and account details.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://twitter.surf.cascade.fyi/users/tobi
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Success rate: 63% of calls made through Zero
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/twitter-surf-cascade-fyi-37d58dbc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3aU7NefPEPQwjyYA5LFm8

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability twitter-surf-cascade-fyi-37d58dbc
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the Twitter profile for @tobi — I want to see his follower count, bio, and whether he's verified?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you specifically need profile metadata for @tobi (Tobi Lütke, Shopify CEO) and want a pay-per-call micro-payment model via x402 without managing Twitter API credentials yourself. Ideal for one-off lookups of this specific high-profile account.

## Known failure modes

- Account suspended or deleted — profile data unavailable
- Twitter/X API rate limit exceeded — HTTP 429
- Service unavailable or upstream Twitter API outage — HTTP 5xx
- Payment not processed — HTTP 402 if x402 payment fails
- Username changed or account deactivated — stale data or 404

## How this service works

Fetches the Twitter profile data for @tobi.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with Tobi Lütke's Twitter profile including user ID (676573), username (tobi), display name, bio description, location (Canada), verified status (true), profile and cover image URLs, account creation date, pinned tweet IDs, and public metrics (followers: ~462K, following: ~2.2K, tweets: ~8.7K, likes: ~7.7K, media: 500).

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "type": "http",
  "method": "GET",
  "queryParams": {}
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "data"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "data": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "id",
    "url",
    "name",
    "location",
    "username",
    "verified",
    "created_at",
    "description",
    "public_metrics",
    "cover_image_url",
    "pinned_tweet_ids",
    "profile_image_url"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "id": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "name": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "location": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "username": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "verified": {
     "type": "boolean"
    },
    "created_at": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "description": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "public_metrics": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "like_count",
      "media_count",
      "tweet_count",
      "followers_count",
      "following_count"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "like_count": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "media_count": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "tweet_count": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "followers_count": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "following_count": {
       "type": "number"
      }
     }
    },
    "cover_image_url": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pinned_tweet_ids": {
     "type": "array",
     "items": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    },
    "profile_image_url": {
     "type": "string"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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