Webhooks and Protected Tweets

[mchatbrain]

Hi,

For the last few years I’ve been using User Streams to receive the tweets (and only tweets) of all my follows from one twitter account. I then push these tweets to a web based app that basically gives me alerts per user, alerts me via voice to the stock symbol, etc. We have a group of traders who share this app. Two follows on the account are protected tweets. This app is very important to us.

I’m the programmer of this app as well as a trader, and I’ve been studying the migration docs. Seems like webhooks is the recommended migration route. However, now that I’ve got my webhook app all the way to the point of adding subscriptions, I think now this is the wrong approach completely, as each subscriber (user that I want to show tweets from) would have to actually authorize my app? Is this correct?

So I see an alternative as statuses/filter method of streaming, which I see is not going away for now. It seems this will work just fine for everything except the protected tweets.

Can you think of any other method that works the same as User Streams to consume ONLY tweets. As a last case scenario, is there anything paid that works the same?

Thanks,
Max

[LeBraat]

I’m the programmer of this app as well as a trader, and I’ve been studying the migration docs. Seems like webhooks is the recommended migration route. However, now that I’ve got my webhook app all the way to the point of adding subscriptions, I think now this is the wrong approach completely, as each subscriber (user that I want to show tweets from) would have to actually authorize my app? Is this correct?

This is correct. You do have to get permission from the users that you want to receive account activities from when using this API.

I encourage you to keep an eye on this item on our roadmap related to statuses/filter. Do know that statuses/filter is not full-fidelity, in that it does not provide every Tweet that matches your query.

Please note that we don’t deliver protected Tweets via any of our endpoints.

Based on everything I understand about your use case, I recommend that you check out PowerTrack API and keep an eye out for that roadmap item. If you don’t need Tweets in realtime, you might want to review some of our historical products such as the Search API.

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