X Twitter rank_change climbers via get_top_trends

X rank_change on Trends MCP is get_top_trends with type X (Twitter) Trending, sort rank_change, and a window such as 1d. From the August 27, 2026 pull, the board stamped 2026-08-27T18:01:38 UTC. The 1d window used baseline 2026-08-27T02:01:32 UTC, a snapshot from the same calendar day, and returned count 2. Shapiro led that list at rank 27, prev_rank 49, rank_change 22. Amish sat at rank 8, prev_rank 17, rank_change 9. Default sort rank filled 100 topics, then count 0 at offset 100. Rank 1 was Peter Cullen. Wikipedia Trending 1d on the same stamp returned count 42. Free tier access is 100 requests per month.

X 1d returned 2 climbers on a same-day 02:01 baseline

From the Trends MCP scan of August 27, 2026, X sort rank_change stamped 2026-08-27T18:01:38 UTC and filled 2 climber rows on window 1d against baseline 2026-08-27T02:01:32 UTC, so a 1d X pull can diff two scans on the same date rather than yesterday versus today.

Offset 50 on that 1d call returned count 0 with a held-or-fell note. The two climbers sit inside the first page. Default sort rank returned 50 topics at offset 0 and 50 more at offset 50, then count 0 at offset 100. Rank 1 was Peter Cullen. Rank 2 Optimus Prime. Rank 3 Transformers. Rank 4 Boosie. Rank 5 Till All Are One. Rank 7 Tropical Storm Dolly. Rank 11 Frank Welker. Rank 22 UEFA. Rank 30 Ratko Mladic. Rank 44 Yayoi Kusama. Rank 73 Nepal. Rank 74 Hugging Face. Rank 79 Nvidia. Two Korean-script hashtags sat at ranks 54 and 92; skip reprinting those strings. Peter Cullen sat at rank 1 and was absent from the 2-row climber list.

Same-stamp Wikipedia Trending 1d used that 02:01 baseline and returned count 42, led by 2026-27 UEFA Europa League at rank 78, prev_rank 179, rank_change 101. Google Trends 1d returned count 21, led by hurricane dolly at rank 38, prev_rank 156, rank_change 118. Google News Top News 1d returned count 0 with a held-or-fell note. App Store Top Free 1d, stamped 2026-08-27T14:01:41 UTC rather than 18:01, returned count 45, led by Netflix at rank 58, prev_rank 90, rank_change 32. The X iOS app sat at App Store Top Free rank 16, prev_rank 26, rank_change 10 on that earlier stamp. ChatGPT sat at App Store Top Free rank 1 and was absent from X 100.

The X Twitter Trending Topics API page still describes a 25-row scan from August 2, 2026 led by #SummerSlam. This pull filled 100, with Peter Cullen at rank 1.

Exact API calls for climber boards

sort rank_change plus window is a separate get_top_trends request from default sort rank, so a 1d climber pull and a current-rank pull on August 27, 2026 are two requests, and each extra window is another request because window is per call.

{
  "mode": "get_top_trends",
  "type": "X (Twitter) Trending",
  "sort": "rank_change",
  "window": "1d",
  "limit": 50
}

{
  "mode": "get_top_trends",
  "type": "X (Twitter) Trending",
  "sort": "rank_change",
  "window": "30d",
  "limit": 50
}

{
  "mode": "get_top_trends",
  "type": "X (Twitter) Trending",
  "limit": 50,
  "offset": 0
}

MCP clients send the same fields on get_top_trends. The type string is exact: X (Twitter) Trending is correct; X (Twitter) fails. Window values are 1d, 3d, 7d, 14d, and 30d. Default sort is rank. Default window when sort is rank_change is 30d, so omit window only when that 30d lookback is the intent. On this stamp the 30d call returned count 1 rather than an empty list. Offset and limit behavior is on get_top_trends pagination. For the Google Trends sibling, see Google Trends rank_change. For a current-rank join against Google Trends, see X Twitter Trending vs Google Trends.

Official X post-read credits do not emit prev_rank against a stored Trends MCP snapshot. Those products are not substitutes. Check current pricing on any X developer plan before quoting a fee.

3d through 14d turned over while 30d still listed UEFA

A longer rank_change window on X can return a row after every mid-length window reported a complete turnover, because only topics still on the current 100-row board that also sat on the older snapshot can climb, and complete turnover is not the same as held-or-fell.

Every window on this stamp used the 02:01 cluster except the current as_of, which sat at 18:01. 1d compared 18:01 against 02:01 on August 27, about sixteen hours, not a full calendar day. 3d, 7d, and 14d found zero shared topics, so rank_change cannot be computed. 30d found UEFA on both snapshots. Count 0 is not one error. Read the note before retrying a shorter window or switching to sort rank.

Shapiro led 1d at +22 and had no 30d row. Amish only appears as a climber on the 1d call. Rank 1 Peter Cullen never entered those objects. UEFA sat at current rank 22 and was absent from the 1d list. A current leader can sit outside the climber list when it held, fell, or was missing from the baseline snapshot.

Live X ranks and search indexes can disagree

There is no x or twitter source on get_growth. Tweet counts are not in this payload. Follow-ups use google search, youtube, or google news on a related keyword, each billed as its own request, and a high X rank can sit next to a flat or falling search index whose recent_date is still last week.

On the 2026-08-22 google search points, peter cullen sat at 1.0, flat over 7 days and 30 days, after a first call returned data_unavailable. youtube for peter cullen sat at 4.0, flat over 7 days from 4.0 and down 42.86% over 30 days from 7.0. google news for peter cullen sat at 0.0 on both windows, with a low-quality warning that the series is over 90% zeros. That weekly 0.0 sat next to Google News Top News rank 24 on the 18:01 stamp, a Peter Cullen obituary headline. Live rank is not a get_growth guarantee. transformers on google search sat at 17.0, down 5.56% over 7 days from 18.0 and down 22.73% over 30 days from 22.0. optimus prime sat at 33.0, down 5.71% over 7 days from 35.0 and up 3.12% over 30 days from 32.0. amish sat at 47.0, down 4.08% over 7 days and 30 days from 49.0. shapiro sat at 12.0, down 7.69% over 7 days from 13.0 and down 29.41% over 30 days from 17.0. UEFA sat at 10.0, down 41.18% over 7 days from 17.0 and down 52.38% over 30 days from 21.0. Quote both values. A 30d X climb for UEFA is not the same story as a weekly search index falling from 17.0 to 10.0.

Unofficial X trend scrapers still advertise a current hashtag page. Trends MCP rank_change is a snapshot diff with prev_rank, not a tweet-volume field from that HTML. The August 27, 2026 1d list had two rows. Publish those two. Do not pad to 25.