How to stream tweets of one user using "follow"

Question

I am trying to use the Twitter api to listen for tweets from one user (1234)

twitterClient.stream('statuses/filter', { follow: 1234 }, (stream) => {
    stream.on('data', tweet => {
      console.log('tweet', tweet)
    })

    stream.on('error', error => {
      console.log('error', error)
    })
  })

This is a node wrapper for Twitter, node-twitter or just 'twitter' on npm.

The developer documentation for this feature is here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/filter-realtime/api-reference/post-statuses-filter.html

My issue is the console.log('tweet', tweet) line never fires, even when I tweet or reply. However, if I use { filter: 'MyKeywordHere' } as the second parameter, it does fire. So why can't I follow my account activity?

your code works fine. I can't replicate the issue. 1- possible reasons maken sure twitter id is valid Id 2- share other part of your code — mehari, Dec 17 '17 at 14:32

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '17 at 13:23

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The follow value must be a string

{ follow: 1234 }

becomes:

{ follow: '1234' }

answered Dec 15 '17 at 13:23

Marnix Bent

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Thank you for the reply but sadly it makes no difference that I can tell. – Noah Dec 15 '17 at 17:42
yeah, that's the answer; you must be using the wrong user ID. Get the user ID from http://mytwitterid.com/ – prospector Dec 06 '18 at 07:11

Boris Traljić · Answer 2 · 2017-12-15T09:22:54.640

This code works! Package: twit

var Twit = require('twit')


var TW = new Twit({
  consumer_key: '#####',
  consumer_secret: '#####',
  access_token: '#####-#####',
  access_token_secret: '#####',
  timeout_ms: 60 * 1000, // optional, HTTP request timeout to apply to all requests.
});

var TWId = '#####'; // string

var stream = TW.stream('statuses/filter', {
  follow: TWId
});

console.log('Waiting for tweets, Id:  ' + TWId);

stream.on('tweet', function (tweet) {
  console.log(tweet);
});

This code also works! Package: twitter

var Twit = require('twitter')


var TW = new Twit({
  consumer_key: '#####',
  consumer_secret: '#####',
  access_token_key: '#####-#####',
  access_token_secret: '#####',
});

var TWId = '#####'; // string

var stream = TW.stream('statuses/filter', {
  follow: TWId
});

console.log('Waiting for tweets, Id:  ' + TWId);

stream.on('data', function (tweet) {
  console.log(tweet);
});

stream.on('error', function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 17 '17 at 14:36

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I think this is because there is no user with 1234 as user_id.

My issue is the console.log('tweet', tweet) line never fires, even when I tweet or reply.

Make sure that you are trying with your own user_id as follow parameter.

answered Dec 17 '17 at 14:36

pii_ke

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