Crypto Twitter Tracker - Real-Time Twitter Event Streaming

A high-performance Apify Standby Actor that streams real-time Twitter events from 1000+ market-moving accounts, including top crypto personalities, news outlets, and tech leaders. Track tweets, profile updates, and social signals with Server-Sent Events (SSE). Get a holistic view of the social landscape influencing crypto markets with coverage of not just crypto-native accounts but also key figures in tech, finance, and media.

🚀 Overview

This Standby-only Actor provides real-time access to Twitter events from over 1000 of the most influential accounts in the digital asset space. The service operates as a lightweight, always-on web server delivering instant notifications from a curated list of top crypto traders, VCs, project founders, and developers, alongside major news organizations and public figures whose commentary impacts the market. Events are pushed to your client as they happen, ensuring you capture every critical social signal.

✨ Key Features

• 🔄 Apify Standby Mode: Always-on, fast-responding web server
• 🔴 Real-Time Event Streaming: Instant delivery via Server-Sent Events (SSE)
• 👥 1000+ Curated Accounts: Monitors a diverse list of crypto traders, VCs, founders, news outlets, and tech visionaries.
• 📊 Multiple Event Types:
  • New tweets and tweet updates
  • Following/unfollowing activity
  • Profile updates and changes
  • Pinned tweet changes
• 🎯 Advanced User Filtering: Filter events by specific Twitter usernames from the tracked accounts
• 📋 Active User List: Access complete list of currently monitored Twitter handles
• ⚡ High Performance: Sub-second event delivery optimized for Standby mode
• 💪 Scalable: Handles thousands of concurrent connections
• 🛡️ Production Ready: Comprehensive health monitoring and auto-scaling

🌐 Available Endpoints

Endpoint	Description	Event Types	Use Case
/events/twitter/all	All Twitter events	All event types	Complete real-time monitoring
/events/twitter/tweets	Tweet activity	post_created, post_update	Track new tweets and updates
/events/twitter/following	Following activity	follow_created, follow_update	Monitor follow/unfollow events
/events/twitter/profile	Profile changes	user_updated, profile_update, pin_update	Track profile modifications
/active-users	1000+ Active Twitter handles	-	Get complete list of monitored crypto accounts with real-time tracking status
/health	Service health check	-	Monitor service status

🔧 Quick Start

Standby Mode Only

This Actor only works in Standby mode. It cannot be run in normal mode. When you run it normally, it will only display a message and exit.

Basic Usage

# Monitor ALL Twitter events (recommended for comprehensive coverage)
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -N https://muhammetakkurtt--crypto-twitter-tracker.apify.actor/events/twitter/all

# Monitor only TWEETS and TWEET UPDATES
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -N https://muhammetakkurtt--crypto-twitter-tracker.apify.actor/events/twitter/tweets

# Monitor FOLLOWING/UNFOLLOWING activity
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -N https://muhammetakkurtt--crypto-twitter-tracker.apify.actor/events/twitter/following

# Monitor PROFILE CHANGES and updates
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -N https://muhammetakkurtt--crypto-twitter-tracker.apify.actor/events/twitter/profile

# Check service health and connection stats
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     https://muhammetakkurtt--crypto-twitter-tracker.apify.actor/health

# Get complete list of 1000+ monitored crypto Twitter accounts
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     https://muhammetakkurtt--crypto-twitter-tracker.apify.actor/active-users

Username Filtering

Filter events by specific Twitter usernames from the 1000+ tracked crypto accounts using the users query parameter:

# Monitor specific users only (comma-separated)
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -N "https://muhammetakkurtt--crypto-twitter-tracker.apify.actor/events/twitter/all?users=elonmusk,pmarca,naval"

# Monitor tweets from specific crypto influencers
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -N "https://muhammetakkurtt--crypto-twitter-tracker.apify.actor/events/twitter/tweets?users=elonmusk,vitalikbuterin,justinsuntron"

# Monitor profile changes for specific accounts
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
     -N "https://muhammetakkurtt--crypto-twitter-tracker.apify.actor/events/twitter/profile?users=cz_binance,sbf_ftx"

🔍 Health Monitoring & Service Status

Health Endpoint Response

Healthy Service Response:

{
  "status": "ok",
  "timestamp": "2025-01-21T10:30:45.000Z",
  "connections": {
    "total": 42,
    "by_endpoint": {
      "tweets": 15,
      "following": 8,
      "profile": 5,
      "all": 14
    }
  },
  "messages_processed": 125847
}

Active Users Endpoint Response

Complete list of 1000+ monitored crypto accounts:

{
  "status": "success",
  "timestamp": "2025-01-21T10:30:45.000Z",
  "last_update": "2025-01-21T10:29:12.000Z",
  "total_users": 1450,
  "usernames": [
    "elonmusk",
    "pmarca",
    "naval",
    "vitalikbuterin",
    "cz_binance",
    "justinsuntron",
    "..."
  ]
}

📊 Event Data Structure

1. Tweet Events - post_created / post_update

{
  "data": {
      "tweetId": "1966110583163597267",
      "username": "garrytan",
      "action": "post_update",
      "tweet": {
          "id": "1966110583163597267",
          "type": "REPLY",
          "created_at": "Thu Sep 11 12:04:26 +0000 2025",
          "author": {
              "handle": "garrytan",
              "profile": {
                  "avatar": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1922894268403941377/-dGWAt3N_normal.jpg",
                  "name": "Garry Tan"
              }
          },
          "body": {
              "text": "Mehtani’s policies have been thoroughly implemented in San Francisco to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars per year and has only resulted in far more death and suffering\n\nWhen might the outcomes change her view? At this point possibly never. https://t.co/NzgcAnN5mj",
              "urls": [],
              "mentions": []
          },
          "media": {
              "images": [
                  "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G0kHJ6OacAA6M2L.jpg"
              ],
              "videos": []
          },
          "subtweet": {
              "id": "1966110576066826246",
              "type": "TWEET",
              "created_at": "Thu Sep 11 12:04:24 +0000 2025",
              "author": {
                  "handle": "garrytan",
                  "verified": false,
                  "profile": {
                      "avatar": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1922894268403941377/-dGWAt3N_normal.jpg",
                      "name": "Garry Tan"
                  }
              },
              "body": {
                  "text": "Surprisingly rational discussion even if mostly one-sided\n\nWhat started as humane HIV prevention with needles has today evolved into encouraging people to smoke fentanyl https://t.co/BYz1ZruQLQ https://t.co/Lr9g4U8u5H",
                  "urls": [
                      {
                          "name": "x.com/ericajsandberg…",
                          "url": "https://x.com/ericajsandberg/status/1965797019517333924",
                          "tco": "https://t.co/BYz1ZruQLQ"
                      }
                  ],
                  "mentions": []
              },
              "media": {
                  "images": [
                      "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G0kHJf0asAAx_ML.jpg"
                  ],
                  "videos": []
              }
          }
      }
  },
  "event_type": "post_created"
}

2. Following Events - follow_created / follow_update

{
  "data": {
      "username": "polyfactual",
      "action": "follow_update",
      "user": {
          "id": "1847461129582194688",
          "handle": "polyfactual",
          "jointed_at": "Sat Oct 19 02:14:04 +0000 2024",
          "profile": {
              "name": "Polyfactual",
              "location": "Internet",
              "avatar": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1944830322077507584/oSNlEgJm_normal.jpg",
              "banner": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/1847461129582194688/1757479805",
              "pinned": [
                  "1964795835402879282"
              ],
              "url": {
                  "name": "https://t.co/OZP99G8ee9",
                  "url": "https://t.co/OZP99G8ee9",
                  "tco": "https://t.co/OZP99G8ee9"
              },
              "description": {
                  "text": "Weekly livestreams on @Polymarket covering political news and world events. \n\nBuilding liquidity infra & tooling for predication markets.",
                  "urls": [
                      {
                          "url": "https://t.co/OZP99G8ee9",
                          "expanded_url": "https://www.polyfactual.com",
                          "display_url": "polyfactual.com",
                          "indices": [
                              0,
                              23
                          ]
                      }
                  ]
              }
          },
          "metrics": {
              "media": 66,
              "tweets": 598,
              "following": 1187,
              "followers": 7364
          }
      },
      "following": {
          "id": "1965781090573893632",
          "handle": "PolymarketBuild",
          "jointed_at": "Wed Sep 10 14:16:14 +0000 2025",
          "profile": {
              "name": "Polymarket Builders",
              "avatar": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1965853271509073922/N4JUepCQ_normal.jpg",
              "banner": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/1965781090573893632/1757530937",
              "pinned": [],
              "url": {
                  "name": "https://polymarket.com/r/builders",
                  "url": "https://polymarket.com/r/builders",
                  "tco": "https://polymarket.com/r/builders"
              },
              "description": {
                  "text": "Your official source for updates, news, & events for the @Polymarket Builders program. Featuring the best community projects built on top of Polymarket.",
                  "urls": []
              }
          },
          "metrics": {
              "media": 0,
              "tweets": 3,
              "following": 61,
              "followers": 324
          }
      }
  },
  "event_type": "follow_created"
}

3. Profile Events - user_updated / profile_update / pin_update

{
  "data": {
      "username": "Neuro_0xy",
      "action": "pin_update",
      "user": {
          "id": "1712372633688313857",
          "handle": "Neuro_0xy",
          "jointed_at": "Thu Oct 12 07:40:43 +0000 2023",
          "profile": {
              "name": "0xytocin",
              "location": "Dubai ",
              "avatar": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1966073243812413440/lyJ0PoDg_normal.png",
              "banner": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/1712372633688313857/1757424592",
              "pinned": [
                  "1966072356499054858"
              ],
              "url": {
                  "name": "https://t.co/c4dswjsPe5",
                  "url": "https://t.co/c4dswjsPe5",
                  "tco": "https://t.co/c4dswjsPe5"
              },
              "description": {
                  "text": "0xy symbol of all neurodivergent\n\n@8A05_AI – Tourette syndrome\n@6A05_AI – Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder\n@6A02_AI – Autism spectrum disorder",
                  "urls": [
                      {
                          "url": "https://t.co/c4dswjsPe5",
                          "expanded_url": "https://linktr.ee/neuro_0xy",
                          "display_url": "linktr.ee/neuro_0xy",
                          "indices": [
                              0,
                              23
                          ]
                      }
                  ]
              }
          },
          "metrics": {
              "media": 44,
              "tweets": 51,
              "following": 113,
              "followers": 5322
          }
      },
      "pinned": [
          {
              "id": "1966072356499054858",
              "type": "TWEET",
              "created_at": "Thu Sep 11 09:32:32 +0000 2025",
              "author": {
                  "handle": "Neuro_0xy",
                  "profile": {
                      "avatar": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1966073243812413440/lyJ0PoDg_normal.png",
                      "name": "0xytocin"
                  }
              },
              "body": {
                  "text": "$0xy oxynABVJXUEc9PLNx4m1XVdiFtRhStzRXG1G6qosni1",
                  "urls": [],
                  "mentions": []
              },
              "media": {
                  "images": [],
                  "videos": []
              }
          }
      ]
  },
  "event_type": "user_updated"
}

🚨 Error Handling & Connection Management

Connection Management Features

• Connection cleanup: Automatic removal of inactive clients
• Graceful shutdown: Clean disconnect notifications
• User filtering: Per-connection username filtering

Common Error Responses

Invalid Endpoint:

{
  "error": "Endpoint not found",
  "available_endpoints": [
    "/events/twitter/all",
    "/events/twitter/tweets", 
    "/events/twitter/following",
    "/events/twitter/profile",
    "/active-users",
    "/health"
  ],
  "filtering": {
    "description": "Add ?users=username1,username2 to filter by specific users",
    "examples": [
      "/events/twitter/all?users=elonmusk,pmarca,naval",
      "/events/twitter/tweets?users=elonmusk,pmarca",
      "/events/twitter/following?users=naval,balajis"
    ]
  }
}

Connection Event Types

Successful Connection:

event: connected
data: {"message":"Connected to tweets endpoint","connection_id":"conn_1234567890","endpoint":"tweets","filter":{"enabled":true,"users_count":3,"sample_users":["elonmusk","pmarca","naval"]}}

Shutdown Warning:

event: shutdown
data: {"message":"Server shutting down"}

Ping/Keep-alive:

event: ping
data: {"ping":"alive"}

🎯 Use Cases

💹 Trading & Investment

• Holistic Market Sentiment: Analyze sentiment from a wide spectrum of accounts, including crypto insiders, financial news outlets, and tech leaders.
• Signal & Alpha Detection: Capture early signals from crypto traders, VCs, and developers while also monitoring commentary from influential public figures.
• Market-Moving News: Get real-time alerts on tweets from both crypto-native and mainstream sources that can impact market dynamics.
• Cross-Disciplinary Insights: Track how developments in tech (e.g., AI, venture capital) and world events are discussed in relation to the crypto market.
• FOMO & Trend Detection: Monitor viral crypto content and emerging trends from top accounts

📊 Analytics & Research

• Large-Scale Social Impact Analysis: Correlate Twitter activity from 1000+ accounts with price movements
• Influence Network Mapping: Analyze relationships between key accounts across crypto, tech, and media to understand how narratives are formed and spread.
• Comprehensive Content Analysis: Study messaging patterns and themes across the complete crypto Twitter landscape
• Cross-Platform Engagement Tracking: Monitor engagement metrics from all major crypto accounts
• Macro Trend Detection: Identify emerging narratives and topics from comprehensive account coverage

🔔 Monitoring & Alerts

• Targeted Notifications: Get alerted on specific keywords or users from 1000+ tracked accounts
• Comprehensive Portfolio Mentions: Monitor when your holdings are discussed across all major crypto accounts
• Breaking News Coverage: Instant notifications on important announcements from verified crypto sources
• Complete Market Dashboards: Build live Twitter monitoring interfaces with full ecosystem coverage
• Enterprise Compliance: Track mentions across the entire crypto Twitter landscape for regulatory compliance

🛠️ Development & Integration

• Advanced Trading Bots: Integrate comprehensive social signals from 1000+ accounts into trading algorithms
• Enterprise Social Trading: Build social-first trading experiences with complete market coverage
• Academic Research Tools: Create large-scale research on social media impact with extensive data coverage
• Comprehensive News Aggregation: Build crypto news platforms with complete crypto Twitter context
• Enhanced Community Tools: Power crypto communities with real-time feeds from all major accounts