Account activity tweet_create_events issue

[ChrisR]

Hey all,

I’m getting a strange, but consistent, behaviour from the account activity webhook. I’ve been able to successfully register my webhook and receive near-instant tweet_create_event callbacks, but only from a single twitter test user. I’ve tested from multiple twitter accounts or had friends tweet @ the specific account, and the webhook only fires when this 1 specific account tweets @ app.

Has anyone else run into this issue? Does my app need approval for all created tweets to trigger the callback?
Is there some hidden limit for applications in development? Any insight into this would be super helpful.

Thanks,
Chris

[andypiper]

You’ll only get Tweet create events for the subscribed user - not for accounts that you follow. Therefore if you want them for multiple accounts, each account will need to be subscribed. Does that match what you are seeing, or am I misunderstanding your scenario?

[ChrisR]

Thanks for taking a look at this. Let me explain further.
I created an App, and successfully registered a webhook and it’s valid. Lets consider a few twitter users A, B, C and D and I’ll describe the scenario i’m experiencing. I’m using the sandbox api tier (not sure if that matters).

User A is me, the creator of the App.
User B is the user that has auth’d the App to subscribe to activity events.
User C is a random twitter account.
User D is another random twitter account.

When User A tweets “@UserB Hello” the webhook is not fired
When User C tweets “@UserB Hello” the webhook is called successfully
When User D tweets “@UserB Hello” the webhook is not fired
When User A DMs @UserB “Hello” the webhook is not fired
When User C DMs @UserB “Hello” a webhook is called successfully

It appears that only one twitter account (UserC) causes a webhook to be called. This may have been the first user to tweet at UserB and that is why I thought there is some probationary period or app approval process to allow interactions from all users to fire the webhook. Is that the case? What would cause the activity stream API to fire for some users and not others.

Thanks again.

[bobber205]

Are Users A/C/D private users?

[ChrisR]

No. All users are public.

[bobber205]

Have you tried a 3rd party account? I could try mentioning them if you want.

[bobber205]

FWIW I’ve never seen this in my 8 months of using the AA-API.

[system]

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