diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index 38d60eee..58e76ba6 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -6554,6 +6554,23 @@ Description
     Logout and retry as guest when access to another user's Tweets is blocked.
 
 
+extractor.twitter.metadata-user
+-------------------------------
+Type
+    ``bool``
+Default
+    ``false``
+Description
+    Extract additional metadata for user accounts (``author``, ``user``)
+
+    * ``based_in``
+    * ``location_accurate``
+    * ``name_changes``
+    * ``source``
+Note
+    This requires 1 additional HTTP request per user.
+
+
 extractor.twitter.pinned
 ------------------------
 Type
diff --git a/docs/gallery-dl.conf b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
index 3ff04e4f..4bb1184a 100644
--- a/docs/gallery-dl.conf
+++ b/docs/gallery-dl.conf
@@ -881,6 +881,7 @@
             "limit"       : 50,
             "locked"      : "abort",
             "logout"      : true,
+            "metadata-user": false,
             "pinned"      : false,
             "quoted"      : false,
             "ratelimit"   : "wait",
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py
index ad393a3f..69fa44e9 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/twitter.py
@@ -572,6 +572,15 @@ class TwitterExtractor(Extractor):
             url = entities["url"]["urls"][0]
             udata["url"] = url.get("expanded_url") or url.get("url")
 
+        if self.config("metadata-user", False) and (
+                about := self.api.user_about_account(
+                udata["name"]).get("about_profile")):
+            udata["source"] = about.get("source")
+            udata["based_in"] = about.get("account_based_in")
+            udata["location_accurate"] = about.get("location_accurate")
+            udata["name_changes"] = (d := about.get(
+                "username_changes")) and d.get("count") or 0
+
         return udata
 
     def _assign_user(self, user):
@@ -1692,6 +1701,13 @@ class TwitterAPI():
         }
         return self._call(endpoint, params)["data"]["user"]["result"]
 
+    @memcache(keyarg=1)
+    def user_about_account(self, screen_name):
+        endpoint = "/graphql/zs_jFPFT78rBpXv9Z3U2YQ/AboutAccountQuery"
+        params = {"variables": self._json_dumps({"screenName": screen_name})}
+        return (self._call(endpoint, params)
+                ["data"]["user_result_by_screen_name"]["result"])
+
     def _user_id_by_screen_name(self, screen_name):
         user = ()
         try: