Twitter webhook API

Use TweetStream WebSocket events to power webhook-style Twitter/X alert delivery with HMAC signing, retries, and downstream fanout.

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Published April 30, 2026 · 1 min read · TweetStream team

A Twitter/X webhook API workflow can be built on top of TweetStream by consuming WebSocket events and fanning out signed webhook requests.

Webhook fanout shape

Webhooks are a delivery pattern. TweetStream can be the source feed, while your service handles webhook fanout to internal or customer endpoints.

  • Consume events once from TweetStream
  • Normalize and filter payloads
  • Sign outgoing webhook requests
  • Retry with backoff and dead-letter failures

When to use each

Use WebSocket for the source-of-truth stream and webhooks for downstream systems that prefer request/response delivery.

Questions

Does TweetStream replace a Twitter webhook API?
TweetStream's primary delivery is WebSocket. You can build webhook delivery on top by consuming events server-side and posting selected alerts to your endpoints.
How should webhook delivery be secured?
Sign outbound webhook payloads, retry failures, and keep event processing idempotent to avoid duplicate downstream actions.

Run this workflow with TweetStream

TweetStream delivers posts, deletes, pins, profile and follow changes, and token and OCR enrichment as WebSocket events. Try it with the accounts from this guide.

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