This event monitors Twitter and runs the Flow when the specified user creates a new tweet, retweet a tweet, or replies to a tweet. Use the Options tab to set the user to monitor - that is the user’s twitter handle but without the @. I.e. to monitor @Company, set the username to ”Company”. Like other Twitter monitors, this one outputs a person section with information about the person who tweeted.
This section is less relevant for Monitor User than for other monitors, since the output is always about the same user. Not all tweets contain all information - some tweets don’t contain URLs, some don’t have media, some are not retweets.
Where information is not applicable, it will be blank.
Options
- username (text) - required: the username to monitor (without the @ symbol)
Output Fields
person: information about the user who sent the tweet
- username (text): their twitter handle
- name (text): their display name
- description (text): their user description
- followers (text): the number of people following this user (a number but in string format)
message: information about the tweet
- content (text): the text of the tweet
- id (text): the unique ID of the tweet
- reply screen name (text): the person who sent the tweet being replied to, if this is a reply
- reply status id (text): the unique ID of the tweet being replied to, if this is a reply
- original tweet id (text): the unique ID of the tweet being retweeted, if this is a retweet
- quoted tweet id (text): the unique ID of the tweet being quoted, if this is a quoted tweet
- url entity (text): the URL contained in the tweet, if there is one. If there are more than one URL, this will contain the first one.
- time created (text): a timestamp for when this tweet was sent
media: information about the image or video in the tweet
- id (text): the unique ID of the media
- url (text): the URL of the media
- type (text): the type of the media