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Asked: 2026-06-09T17:30:04+00:00

Recently I’m doing a small project on twitter, and I want to get tweets

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Recently I’m doing a small project on twitter, and I want to get tweets from some specific users.

So I use Streaming API, pycurl and python.

The API Reference says the follow parameter is:

A comma separated list of user IDs, indicating the users to return
statuses for in the stream. See the follow parameter documentation for
more information.

And I tried this 

c.setopt(c.POSTFIELDS, 'follow=slaindev')

but the return message is not the tweets that slaindev posted, but an error

Parameter follow has unparseable items slaindev

So do I misunderstand the meaning of user ID? I think it is the one we use to mention someone( I mean I use @slaindev to mention this guy).

When I try track parameter, it works fine.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your assumption regarding user_id is incorrect. See this, for example. You are talking about screen_name.

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