# Vibe Springs — Social Proxy: Brian Armstrong Tweets

> Vibe Springs — Social Proxy: Brian Armstrong Tweets is a paid API for AI agents from vibesprings.net, paid per call via x402, $1/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches recent tweets from Brian Armstrong's Twitter/X account via a social proxy crawler, returning tweet text, engagement metrics, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://vibesprings.net/api/social/brian_armstrong/tweets
- Price: $1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vibe-springs-social-proxy-brian-armstrong-tweets-6cf0c7e3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Mp291vS4Hv23CIvGq2UHh

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 vibe-springs-social-proxy-brian-armstrong-tweets-6cf0c7e3
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the latest tweets from Brian Armstrong and show me what he's been saying recently, including how many likes and retweets each post got?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you specifically need recent tweet data from Brian Armstrong (Coinbase CEO) without setting up Twitter API credentials or OAuth. Best for agents that need quick, pay-per-query social media lookups for this specific public figure using x402 micropayments on Base.

## Known failure modes

- Twitter/X account inaccessible or rate-limited by underlying crawler — may return empty tweet array
- Social proxy crawler downtime — may return 5xx error
- Payment failure via x402 micropayment — returns 402 Payment Required
- Stale or cached data if crawler has not refreshed recently

## How this service works

17 pay-per-query data, utility, and workflow services for AI agents. Weather forecast, air quality, earthquakes, marine, flood risk, solar, currency exchange, public holidays, cryptocurrency prices, PDF, image conversion, CSV processing, and custom agentic workflows. Powered by x402 micropayments on Base. No accounts, no API keys.

## Output

A JSON object containing a list of Brian Armstrong's recent tweets, each with tweet ID, text content, like count, retweet count, and creation timestamp, plus the username, total count, data source label, fetch timestamp, and processing time.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "count": 2,
  "source": "Social Proxy Crawler",
  "tweets": [
   {
    "id": "1",
    "text": "AI agents paying other AI agents in USDC on Base is the future of the internet economy.",
    "likes": 450,
    "retweets": 120,
    "created_at": "2026-06-25T12:00:00.000Z"
   }
  ],
  "username": "brian_armstrong",
  "fetched_at": "2026-06-25T12:05:00.000Z",
  "processingTime": "140ms"
 }
}
```

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