Subscribe to account activity

Account Activity API

Overview

The Account Activity API provides you the ability to subscribe to realtime activities related to a user account via webhooks. This means that you can receive realtime Tweets, Direct Messages, and other account events from one or more of your owned or subscribed accounts through a single connection.

You will receive all related activities below for each user subscription on your webhook registration:

Activity types
Tweets @mentions Replies Retweets Quote Tweets Retweets of Quoted Tweets Likes Subscription Revokes	Follows Blocks Mutes Send Direct Messages Receive Direct Messages Typing indicators Read receipts Tweet deletes

Video Series

Check out our four-part video series on the Account Activity API to get up to speed!

Today we announced the Account Activity API is generally available as a premium and enterprise API. 🔔 pic.twitter.com/xnlF9kPevi
— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) May 16, 2018

Feature summary

Tier	Pricing	Number of unique subscriptions	Number of webhooks	Reliability and Activity Recovery
Premium	Free (Sandbox)	Up to 15	1	No retries
Premium	Paid	Up to 25, 50,100, 250	2	Retries
Enterprise	Contact sales	Up to 500+	3+	Retries

Next steps

Apply for access and get started with webhooks.
Check out our API references to find the right endpoint for the job.
Follow this step-by-step tutorial on how to build a customer engagement application on Twitter.
Have questions? Running into errors?
- Read our Frequently asked questions or Error Troubleshooting guide.
- Ask a question on the community forum.
Explore our sample code:
- Premium Account Activity API dashboard, a node web app that displays webhook events.
- The SnowBot chatbot, a Ruby web app built on the enterprise Account Activity and Direct Message APIs.