Twitter API - Listen to a user's tweets in real-time

Question

I am trying to listen to a number of users' (specific users) tweets in real-time using the Twitter API, but I have not been able to find any documentation regarding this. I have found lots of info about listening to tweets that use a certain hashtag or keyword but no info about listening to all tweets from certain users in real-time.

With the Twitter4J API I was able to specify a number of users, create a stream and then have a piece of code run whenever one of the users tweeted. How could I accomplish this with PHP?

Answer 1

From https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/reference/post/statuses/filter

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A comma-separated list of user IDs, indicating the users whose Tweets should be delivered on the stream.

So, if you POST John,Paul,George,Ringo you will get a stream which includes:

• Tweets created by the user.
• Tweets which are retweeted by the user.
• Replies to the user.
• Retweets of the user.

Answer 2

Late response, but have you seen this?

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/subscribe-account-activity/overview

Account Activity API

Overview

The Account Activity API provides you the ability to subscribe to realtime activities related to a user account via webhooks. This means that you can receive realtime Tweets, Direct Messages, and other account events from one or more of your owned or subscribed accounts through a single connection.

You will receive all related activities below for each user subscription on your webhook registration:

Activity types

• Tweets (by user)
• Tweet deletes (by user)
• @mentions (of user)
• Replies (to or from user)
• Retweets (by user or of user)
• Quote Tweets (by user or of user)
• Retweets of Quoted Tweets (by user or of user)
• Likes (by user or of user)
• Follows (by user or of user)
• Unfollows (by user)
• Blocks (by user)
• Unblocks (by user)
• Mutes (by user)
• Unmutes (by user) *Direct Messages sent (by user)
• Direct Messages received (by user) *Typing indicators (to user)
• Read receipts (to user)
• Subscription revokes (by user)

Please note - We do not deliver home timeline data via the Account Activity API. Please use the GET statuses/home_timeline to pull this data.