Is it possible to monitor all tweets and retweets from a single account on twitter?

[syx093]

I am trying to monitor all tweets and retweets made my a single user on twitter. I am trying to accomplish this using the Rest API app on splunk. I have been using GET statueses/user_timeline from the twitter documentation in order to accomplish this however, I am getting nothing from twitter and I do not have any idea why. I can stream the most recent most recent tweet made by a user using POST statuses/filterhowever, it only takes the tweets and turns it to a event if a user tweets @<account name> followed by there messages. Is there any possible way to get both tweets and retweets from twitter. Or do I have to resort to coding something that can accomplish this.

[twh1]

Hi,
In URL argument you pass the twitterId of the user as below. You can get twitterId from http://gettwitterid.com/ by passing Twitter user name. This way it worked for me.

follow=359714389^stall_warnings=true

[Damien_Dallimor]

I'm pretty sure you can use the search/tweets endpoint

And then pass in a query string to narrow to 1 user and use the since_id parameter to get historic tweets (note , twitter will rate limit how many tweets you can pull back, read their docs.)

Fields from above :

Endpoint URL : https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json

URL arguments : q=from:someuserhandle,since_id=24012619984051000,result_type=mixed

[syx093]

It is not working on my end. Even when I switch to Authentication Type to oauth1 and enter in my keys and secret. Thanks but I think I will stick with Get User. The only thing I think I may have messed up is the url argument.

[syx093]

I recently got this working with GET user however, it only streams the most recent tweets and retweets.