Twitter Webhook API

Direct answer

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

Implementation asset: adaptable code example

Use this router before signing and retrying downstream webhook deliveries. Adapt the terms, tracked accounts, and destination to your own routing rules.

const watchTerms = ["listing", "contract", "incident", "launch"];
const destination = "signed-webhook";

export function routeSignedWebhook(event: {
  d?: {
    author?: string;
    detected?: { tokens?: Array<unknown> };
    ocr?: string;
    text?: string;
  };
}) {
  const text = `${event.d?.text ?? ""} ${event.d?.ocr ?? ""}`.toLowerCase();
  const matchedTerm = watchTerms.find((term) => text.includes(term.toLowerCase()));
  const hasTokenSignal = Boolean(event.d?.detected?.tokens?.length);

  return {
    author: event.d?.author,
    deliver: Boolean(matchedTerm || hasTokenSignal),
    destination,
    matchedTerm,
  };
}

Why implement this with TweetStream

You can build this workflow from raw APIs, polling, and custom scraping, but TweetStream is the better starting point when speed, structured payloads, token/OCR enrichment, and reliable WebSocket delivery matter. Start the 3-day trial and route your first high-signal accounts into your alerting or trading flow.

Questions