Twit Send and Receive Twitter DMs

Question

I am trying to use Twit to send and receive Twitter DMs.

When I create a stream like this:

var stream = T.stream('user');

I get a 404 error. I believe this is because the user stream has been deprecated.

What stream can I use instead to send and receive DMs?

Answer 1

That's correct, you will need to use the Account Activity API to receive Direct Messages in realtime. This is a webhook-based API. Twitter has a migration guide.

In summary:

1. Create an app with a listening URL for Twitter to post events to.
2. Register the webhook
3. Listen for incoming Direct Messages
4. Use the REST Direct Message API to respond.

There's also a full tutorial on this using a JavaScript package called autohook.