nodejs twit how do you follow a users LIVE twitter stream

Question

I'm using twit (https://www.npmjs.com/package/twit) to stream live tweets from particular twitter users.

I have the following code:

var stream = T.stream('statuses/filter', { follow: ['nodejs'] })

stream.on('tweet', function (tweet) {
    console.log(tweet.text)
})

However, it generates the following error:

Error: Bad Twitter streaming request: 406
    at Object.exports.makeTwitError (/Users/simoncarr/dev/node/nodeletetweet/scripts/get_mp_data/node_modules/twit/lib/helpers.js:74:13)
    at Request.<anonymous> (/Users/simoncarr/dev/node/nodeletetweet/scripts/get_mp_data/node_modules/twit/lib/streaming-api-connection.js:96:29)
    at Request.emit (events.js:187:15)
    at Gunzip.<anonymous> (/Users/simoncarr/dev/node/nodeletetweet/scripts/get_mp_data/node_modules/request/request.js:1083:12)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:273:13)
    at Gunzip.emit (events.js:187:15)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1094:12)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)
Emitted 'error' event at:
    at Request.<anonymous> (/Users/simoncarr/dev/node/nodeletetweet/scripts/get_mp_data/node_modules/twit/lib/streaming-api-connection.js:99:14)
    at Request.emit (events.js:187:15)
    [... lines matching original stack trace ...]
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)

Simply tracking terms in a tweet will suffice; for example, the following code will suffice.

var stream = T.stream('statuses/filter', { track: ['apples'] })

stream.on('tweet', function (tweet) {
    console.log(tweet.text)
})

According to Twitter's guidelines, I should be able to just replace track with follow.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/filter-realtime/api-reference/post-statuses-filter.html

Answer 1

In the following argument, you must use the numeric user ID rather than the screen name. The users/show endpoint can be used to get the user ID for a specific screen name.

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