Tutorials

Instructions and examples to help you get started.

Usage monitoring and management

Programmatically monitor and manage your API usage.

Explore a user’s Tweets

Learn how to explore a user’s Tweets and mentions using the user Tweet timeline and user mention timeline endpoints from the last 7 days.

Getting started with Postman

Learn how to start using Postman to make requests to the Twitter API and Twitter Ads API

Getting started with R and v2 of the Twitter API

Learn about using R to connect to the user lookup endpoint and how to work with JSON returned from Twitter API v2.

Getting historical Tweets using the full-archive search endpoint

Learn to use the full-archive search endpoint to search the complete history of public Twitter data, build a dataset by retrieving geo-tagged Tweets, and how to page through the available Tweets for a query.

Post-processing Twitter data with the Google Cloud Platform

This guide gives a high-level overview on how to ingest Tweets at scale, and “slice and dice” those Tweets via metadata to narrow them down to a specific category, or sub-categories.

Build a simple customer engagement application

Learn how to build a basic chatbot using webhooks and REST API endpoints

Developer Guide: Twitter API Toolkit for Google Cloud: Filtered Stream

Learn the basics about the Twitter API and Tweet annotations in addition to gaining experience in Google Cloud, Analytics, and data science foundations.

Creating a Twitter bot with Python, OAuth 2.0, and v2 of the Twitter API

Learn more about creating a Twitter bot with Python and OAuth 2.0 using Twitter API v2.

How to build an autoresponder with Autohook and the Account Activity API

Use the Account Activity API to configure a webhook, set up OAuth, and send a message for replying in real time.

Get customized Tweet notifications where you want them

Learn how to build an app in Java that publishes links to Tweets based on user defined interests.

Translating plain language to filtering queries

Learn about taking rules articulated in English and transform them into filtering rules using the appropriate Twitter premium operators and syntax.

Step-by-step guide to making your first request to the Twitter API v2

This is a detailed walkthrough of all the basic steps for getting started with Twitter API v2 from sign up to endpoint request.

Getting started with the Account Activity API

Learn about Twitter's webhook-based Account Activity API to get started with securing webhooks, authentication, and receiving events.

Kickstart your Twitter bot with our Glitch example written in Python

Use Python to get started with the Twitter API and engage with the public conversation by creating a Twitter Bot.

Developer Guide: Twitter API Toolkit for Google Cloud: Enterprise API

Use the Twitter API Toolkit for Google Cloud: Enterprise API to install a trend detection framework in under an hour.

Developer Guide: Twitter API toolkit for Google Cloud: Recent Search

Learn the basics about Twitter API as well as Google Cloud, Analytics, and the foundations of data science.

How to build a live scoreboard using Twitter

How to build a chatbot that privately receives scores and Tweets out leaderboard updates.

Measure Tweet performance

Build a simple tool to understand how users’ Tweets are performing in the world.

One-time Historical PowerTrack jobs

Learn more about the steps that you will go through when accessing our one-time Historical PowerTrack offering.

Choosing a historical API

Learn how to create moments of delight informed by customer context.

Retrieve a list of user mentions from a thread of Tweet replies

Learn how to quickly and easily retrieve all usernames mentioned in a thread of replies on Twitter

Determining Tweet Types

Learn about the four different types of Tweets and how to programmatically detect them.

How to analyze the sentiment of your own Tweets

Learn how to analyze the sentiment of your Tweet timeline.

Filtering Tweets by location

Learn how to filter Tweets by location.

Building an app to stream Tweets in real-time

Build a real-time Tweet streaming app to listen for and display Tweets based on your own topics of interest.

Authenticating with the Twitter API for Enterprise

Learn about the different authentication methods necessary to access the Twitter enterprise APIs.

Analyze past conversations using search Tweets

Search for topics or keywords and analyze the related conversation using the v2 recent search endpoint

Uploading video and creating a draft Tweet

Learn how to use twurl to upload a video and use this to create a video app card and Draft Tweet

Listen for important events

Listen for events that matter to you so that you can trigger appropriate actions or notifications.

How to store streaming Tweets in a Google Sheet

Learn to consume Twitter API filtered stream endpoint data and store it into a Google Sheets

Learning path: How to detect signal from noise and build powerful filtering rules

Learn how to build robust rulesets to effectively filter large volumes of Twitter data and identify meaningful insights with PowerTrack

Consuming streaming data

Tips for consuming streaming data.

Using Twurl

Learn how to use twurl to make requests to the Twitter Ads API

Using Search Tweets and Twilio to solve a problem

Learn how I used the Search Tweets API along with Twilio to build a text message alert whenever the @NYCASP account Tweets about alternate side of the street parking information.

Getting started with converting JSON objects to CSV

Search for topics, and then output the returned data into CSV format.

Advanced filtering for geo data

Learn more about the available geo data, operators, and how to build effective filters to target both Tweet level and account level geo in Tweets

Uploading Media

Learn how to use twurl to upload media to an account

Stream Tweets in real-time

Surface and stream Tweets and conversations as they happen.