Subscribe to curated X accounts and topic X Groups from the Catalog. When something worth hearing arrives, Announcr speaks a short line and keeps it in your Messages history.

To hear a single long-form X Article read, summarized, or taught (including by tagging @AnnouncrFM), see X Articles. That is a one-off request, not an account follow.

Sign-in vs linking X

What	How
Create / sign in to Announcr	Google or a Solana wallet on the login page
Follow X accounts as spoken alerts	Catalog → X posts (plan slots; Free includes 5)
Follow a topic roster	Catalog → X Groups (paid plans)
Link your own X identity	Settings → Linked accounts → Link X

Linking X is optional and works like Telegram or Roblox: you must already be signed in to Announcr with Google or a Solana wallet. Announcr stores that you own that X handle (for verification and community features). It does not become a sign-in method, and it does not automatically subscribe you to that handle.

If an X account is already linked to a different Announcr user, you cannot link it again until they disconnect it.

X posts

X listening is curated — you pick from accounts the platform has approved. You do not need to link your personal X account just to follow public curated accounts.

Suggesting an X account

If someone is missing:

1. Open X posts in the Catalog and use Don't see an account? Suggest one.
2. Enter a handle any of these ways — all resolve to the same username:
   • bare handle: 0xEthan
   • with at-sign: @0xEthan
   • profile URL: https://x.com/0xEthan (or twitter.com/…)
3. An admin reviews the suggestion; when approved, the account appears for everyone to subscribe.

X subscription slots depend on your Premium plan (Free includes 5 — upgrade for more).

How X posts are spoken

• Short posts may be spoken close to the original wording.
• Longer posts are summarized into a natural spoken line (not a raw feed scrape).
• The UI can still show a View on X (or similar) link so you can open the original post — that is separate from what is spoken.
• The account name is not repeated in the spoken line — it already identifies the message in the feed (and can be added via {{author}} in the catalog phrase if you want it spoken).

When you subscribe, you choose Everything (every post) or Important only (posts that clear the importance bar). That is your catalog stream — separate from the opt-in Important ambient lane, which can surface curated accounts you do not follow.

Photos

When a post has a single still photo, Announcr can describe the image so speech is not empty or a useless "shared a link" line. The description is a short, content-only sentence suitable for TTS (for example food, a product, a chart — whatever is in the frame). Multi-image and video posts do not get this photo description yet.

Links in posts

Unreadable URLs are not spelled out character-by-character:

• Short links such as t.co, other shorteners, and URLs with long paths or query strings are dropped from speech.
• Simple brand domains with no path (for example microsoft.com) may still be spoken as the domain name.

For the first non-X external link in a post (after following short links such as t.co), Announcr may unfurl the page the same way a browser preview does: title and description from the site's public metadata (Open Graph / similar). Speech then names the page — "Article title. Short description." — rather than the act of linking to it. A post with a caption is spoken as its caption alone; one with nothing but a link becomes "a link to dexscreener.com" when the destination is worth saying aloud, and just "a link" when it is not — a shortener names nothing you could act on, and a generated host like "x7k2q9.com" is worse heard than skipped. The destination comes from X's own link expansion, so no extra request is made and a site that blocks preview bots is still named. These read as the continuation of the phrase template that supplies the verb ("{{author}} posted: …"), which a sentence like "Shared a link." did not.

Not unfurled (on purpose):

• Links that stay on X / Twitter (status pages, quote-retweet style shares)
• X media hosts (photo/video CDN) — photos use the image path above when applicable
• Pages that block bots, time out, or have no usable preview metadata — you may still hear a generic shared-link fallback

Only the first qualifying external link is unfurled per post.

Token tickers in X posts

Known ALL-CAPS tickers in the spoken line (for example BLOXX) are rewritten to a natural pronunciation for audio only (for example Blocks), using the same dictionary as price alerts. Message history keeps the real ticker. Only uppercase whole-word matches are replaced so ordinary English words are left alone.

Personal music bed on an X signal

Open the signal under Signals (or Edit signal from Messages) and pick an optional music bed for that account — like a ringtone. See Music beds.

X Groups

An X Group is one subscription backed by a platform-maintained roster of accounts around a topic. The roster lists named people, shows a thesis for why they belong, and is refreshed and human-reviewed centrally — you do not wire each account yourself.

1. Open X Groups in the Catalog.
2. Pick a group (roster, tagline, and recent rebuild time are all visible).
3. Subscribe with Everything or Important only, then manage it under Signals like any other X signal.

X Group seats are a Premium entitlement (Free has none; paid plans get one or more). Speech, photos, links, and interrupt preferences work the same way as individual X posts.

See also: X Articles · Telegram · Gmail watch · Signal catalog · Spoken alerts