# Twitter Surf – @sama Recent Tweets

> Twitter Surf – @sama Recent Tweets is a paid API for AI agents from twitter.surf.cascade.fyi, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns recent tweets from Twitter/X user 'sama' (Sam Altman), optionally including replies, via a pay-per-call USDC API.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://twitter.surf.cascade.fyi/users/sama/tweets
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/twitter-surf-cascade-fyi-fe5b0944
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ndDX6cbm2pYxmDWIThanG

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-fe5b0944
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the latest tweets from @sama on Twitter, including any replies he's posted?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you specifically need recent tweets from the @sama (Sam Altman) Twitter account and are operating in a crypto-payment-capable agent environment that supports x402 USDC micropayments on Solana or Base. Ideal for monitoring AI/tech discourse from a high-profile figure without requiring OAuth Twitter credentials.

## Known failure modes

- Payment failure: insufficient USDC balance or unsupported chain results in 402 Payment Required
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded returns an error response
- Twitter API downstream unavailability may return empty or error response
- Invalid or missing payment header returns 402 or 401 error

## How this service works

Paid API that returns recent tweets from Twitter user 'sama', accepting USDC payments on Solana or EIP-8453.

## Output

A list of recent tweets from the @sama Twitter account, including tweet text, timestamps, and optionally replies. Returned after a $0.004 USDC micropayment is processed on Solana or Base (EIP-8453).

## Example request

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

## 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"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "include_replies": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "Include replies"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "_truncated",
  "_originalSize"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "_truncated": {
   "type": "boolean"
  },
  "_originalSize": {
   "type": "number"
  }
 }
}
```

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