# Who Is Behind an X (Twitter) Account? Job and Career

**Use case:** 

Paste X (Twitter) handles, one per line, and get the professional behind each account: name, current role, employer and career history with dates. Use it to check an investor, founder or vendor who writes to you on X. The example looks up two public executives; replace them with your list. Set network to facebook or github for those handles.

## Input

```json
{
  "network": "twitter",
  "handles": [
    "reidhoffman",
    "levie"
  ],
  "contacts": false,
  "compact": false
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "fullName": {
    "label": "Name",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "jobTitle": {
    "label": "Job title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "companyName": {
    "label": "Company",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "experience": {
    "label": "Positions",
    "format": "object"
  },
  "education": {
    "label": "Education",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "certifications": {
    "label": "Certifications",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "skills": {
    "label": "Skills",
    "format": "array"
  },
  "about": {
    "label": "About",
    "format": "string"
  }
}
```

## How it works

### 1. Sign up on Apify or log in

The GitHub, X & Facebook Handle to LinkedIn Profile Finder Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Who Is Behind an X (Twitter) Account? Job and Career". [Sign up or log in](https://console.apify.com/create-task-from-example/WLl25MOqgczwKQ4nZ) and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

### 2. Start the "Who Is Behind an X (Twitter) Account? Job and Career" task

The GitHub, X & Facebook Handle to LinkedIn Profile Finder Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like network, handles or profile links, and more, to match your specific use case.

### 3. Receive the "Who Is Behind an X (Twitter) Account? Job and Career" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as name, job title, company, and more.

### 4. Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also [run the "Who Is Behind an X (Twitter) Account? Job and Career" task via API](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/social-handle-lookup.md).

## FAQ

### What does the who is behind an X account task return?

The X account task returns one row per handle: name, current job title, employer, location, the LinkedIn profile URL and the career history with dates, or a free not_found row.

### How often does an X handle match a person?

About 18% of handles on a cold list matched a person in a test of 241 for the X account task (30 Sep 2026). Well-known accounts match more often; misses are free.

### Can I look up Facebook or GitHub handles instead?

Set network to facebook or github in the X account task. One network per run. GitHub usernames match a professional profile least often.

### Can I get emails and phones with the career history?

Turn on contacts in the X account task to add emails, phones and other social links. The contacts price applies only to people with a contact that reaches them today.

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [GitHub, X & Facebook Handle to LinkedIn Profile Finder](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/social-handle-lookup.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/b2bsearch/social-handle-lookup.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/b2bsearch/social-handle-lookup.md

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).