Before, I’ve been using the Streaming API to get new tweets from a certain account that I do not own, in my case, @FortniteGame. However, I’ve been told to use the Account Activity API instead due to the changes Twitter have made. But from my knowledge about what I have read so far, you have to use OAuth to authorise the account that you wish to retrieve information about, and I don’t own the account @FortniteGame… obviously haha. Is there a way to get new tweets from an account that you don’t own in real time?
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Hey Dan,
You can still use the Streaming API to get public tweets from Twitter accounts you don’t own or manage.
Account Activity API is here to replace User and Site Streams, not for filtering real-time tweets. AA API indeed requires that users authorize your app to access their data.
I suppose you already use the POST statuses/filter endpoint and pass a list of user IDs to the follow parameter? If so, there is no change needed. Otherwise, I suggest you read the doc here.
Hope that helps!
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Oh right, didn’t know this. Thank you very much!
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