Getting results when someone likes authenticated user's tweet?

[vw1965]

I can see that there is an even for when a user’s tweet is liked: https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview/messages-types#Events_event

however, I can’t for the life of me figure out how I can get this kind of event? Any advice, even just at a super basic level?

[IgorBrigadir]

Depends on what library / language you’re using - different libraries might have a separate listener for those events.

Also important to remember the userstream applies only to you (the authenticating user) so you can’t get those events for arbitrary users.

[vw1965]

Thanks for the response @IgorBrigadir. So are you saying that It’s not possible for me, as a developer, to obtain the event information for a user of my application? Like if a user of my application authorizes twitter, then I still can’t be notified when one of their tweets is favorited?

[vw1965]

Also, if anyone else knows whether or not I can access the events of multiple users within my application that would be great. So far, it seems like I can’t…

[IgorBrigadir]

Oh - for that you need to make sure that you’re connecting with the right Access Token & Secret. ie: Consumer Key & secret are from your app, and the Access Token & Secret is specific to a user who authorized your application.

Unfortunately to do this for many users - you need Sitestreams https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/sitestreams which are closed at the moment. (userstreams are designed for 1 user only, so running multiple streams for multiple users won’t work)

[vw1965]

Thanks @IgorBrigadir I appreciate it sucks that userstreams isn’t very flexible but good to know!