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Get Notified When Someone Tweets: 4 Ways That Work (2026)

How to get notified when someone tweets: X's bell, fixes for alerts that stop, what IFTTT and Zapier do now, and a monitor that posts to Slack or Telegram.


Published · Updated · 7 min read

Cover image: A ping for every new post

To get notified when someone tweets, follow them on X, tap the bell on their profile and choose All posts.

It's free for any account you follow on X (Twitter). For a team channel, a word filter or code, you get three more routes, checked on 7 November 2026. We run Weir, the tool behind routes 3 and 4.

The bell's path, from X's Help Center:

iPhone:  their profile → bell icon → All posts
Android: their profile → bell icon → tick Account notifications → All posts

Which way should you use to get notified when someone tweets?

Pick by who needs the alert and how fast, as of November 2026:

Route Best for Delay Cost
X's bell You, on your phone Push from X Free
IFTTT applet You, without code Checks every 5-60 min Free to $7.99 a month
Weir monitor A team chat, or code Hourly or daily runs 1 credit a run + 1 a post
Agent prompt A quick check When you ask 1 credit + 1 a post
X Activity API Real-time apps As posts happen $0.005 a post

Our pick: the bell for yourself, a monitor for a team or your code, and X's Activity API when seconds matter.

1. How do you turn on Twitter notifications for a specific person?

Use the bell on their profile. X's Help Center gives these steps:

  1. Follow the accountX describes the bell for accounts you follow.
  2. Tap the bellIt's the notification icon on their profile.
  3. Pick All postsOr Only posts with live video.
  4. Allow pushSettings and privacy, Notifications, Preferences, Push notifications.

On Android, tick Account notifications first, then pick All posts or Only live video. X lists no choice for replies.

To stop your alerts, tap the highlighted bell and pick None.

Why are Twitter notifications for a specific user not working?

X's, Apple's and Google's help pages point to these causes:

  • You muted the account. X says you "will no longer receive push or SMS notifications from any muted account."
  • X's push setting is off. Check Settings and privacy, Notifications, Preferences, Push notifications.
  • Your phone blocks X. On iPhone, see Settings, Notifications, X. On Android, see Settings, Notifications, App notifications.
  • A Focus or Scheduled Summary is on. Apple says both hold iPhone notifications back for later.
  • The device cap is full. X allows 25 devices for push, so remove your old ones.
  • You're on a tablet. X says its notifications aren't push compatible on tablets like the Kindle Fire.
  • A setting just changed. X's Android note says your change can take a few minutes to show.

Your muted words don't block these alerts, per X's muting page.

2. Can IFTTT or Zapier still send tweet alerts?

IFTTT can, and Zapier can't. We checked both on 7 November 2026.

IFTTT still lists New tweet by a specific user. Its one field is the username, and your plan sets how often it checks:

60 minbetween checks on IFTTT Free
15 minon Starter, $2.99 a month
5 minon Pro, $7.99 a month

IFTTT's plans page says X works on every plan. We haven't tested how reliably it fires.

Zapier's X integration is gone. Its Twitter app page now redirects to a notice that it was deprecated on 31 August 2023. On 8 May 2026, Zapier's community manager wrote that it "is no longer available."

X has no RSS feed for accounts. Its developer docs list one feed, for their own changelog. Our Twitter RSS feed guide covers services that build you one.

3. How do you get tweet alerts in Slack, Discord or Telegram?

A Weir monitor checks one account on a schedule and sends only its new posts to your chat app. We run Weir, so weigh our view.

  1. Copy a chat URLA Slack or Discord webhook, or a Telegram bot link.
  2. Register itPOST /v1/webhooks with a name and that URL.
  3. Test itPOST /v1/webhooks/{id}/test sends a test message.
  4. Watch the accountPOST /v1/monitors with an x_user target.

Each app takes its own URL, per Weir's docs:

App URL to use as the webhook
Slack https://hooks.slack.com/services/…
Discord https://discord.com/api/webhooks/…
Telegram https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/sendMessage?chat_id=<id>

A run that finds new posts reaches you as a short message: the monitor's name, the count and up to five links. Telegram needs a bot first: our Telegram bot guide shows you how.

These bodies come from Weir's monitor docs, not our own runs:

POST https://api.weirapp.io/v1/webhooks
{"name": "NASA alerts", "url": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/..."}

POST https://api.weirapp.io/v1/monitors
{"name": "NASA posts", "schedule": "daily",
 "target": {"kind": "x_user", "handle": "NASA"},
 "webhookId": "<id from the first call>"}

Both calls are free, and your dashboard's Webhooks and Monitors pages do the same.

  • Your free account gets one monitor, daily or weekly. Hourly needs a paid tier: any pack, from $5.
  • New content only. Weir dedupes on a hash of each post's content, not its id.
  • The first run catches up. You get the latest posts already on the profile.
  • Keep the chat URL secret. Anyone who has it can post to your channel.

Alerts for one topic, or for several accounts

Use a search target instead, with sources set to ["x"]. Its query takes X's search operators:

from:NASA Artemis -filter:nativeretweets
from:NASA OR from:SpaceX -filter:replies

The first sends you only @NASA posts about Artemis. The second watches two accounts.

We ran the second without its filter on 7 November 2026. It found posts from both for 4 credits, with a reply on top.

An x_user monitor reads the timeline instead, so that delay doesn't apply. More operators are in our keyword alerts guide.

What tweet alerts cost

You pay one credit a run, plus one per new post. An account watch also pays a one-time 2-credit lookup. For an account posting 10 times a day:

Credits a month to watch one account posting 10 times a day
Daily monitor~330
Hourly monitor, paid tier~1,020
Free credits each month5,000

Both fit in your free monthly credits.

For developers: a signed webhook

Point the webhook at your own server, and Weir sends signed JSON with up to 25 new posts in data.results, in the API's shape.

This is @NASA's newest timeline post from our get_x_user_posts call on 7 November 2026, trimmed. It cost 6 credits for three posts.

{
  "id": "2119136607009734978",
  "text": "Do you want to be an astronaut?\n\nApplications are now open to join NASA's astronaut corps. ...",
  "url": "https://x.com/NASA/status/2119136607009734978",
  "createdAt": "2026-11-07T18:35:13.000Z"
}

Check each delivery's HMAC-SHA256 signature on the raw body first, with the code in the monitor docs.

Answer 200 within 10 seconds. Retries keep the same weir-event-id for about nine hours, so dedupe on it.

4. Ask your agent to check an account for you

If you only check now and then, just ask. Add Weir's MCP server, https://api.weirapp.io/mcp, to Claude or ChatGPT, then paste this:

Check @NASA's posts since yesterday and tell me if any mention Artemis.
Skip reposts, and give me a link to each match.

We ran the search behind it on 7 November 2026. Nothing matched, for 1 credit:

→ search_x {"fromUsers": ["NASA"], "query": "Artemis", "since": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}
← 0 posts · 1 credit

Over the past week, every match was a repost: X's search includes them by default. Your prompt's second line drops them.

When not to use Weir

  • It's one account, just for you. The bell is free.
  • Seconds matter. Weir's monitors run hourly at best. X's Activity API sends a post.create event as each post happens, at $0.005 a post.
  • The account is protected. Weir reads public data only.

If you forward posts to a public channel, check X's terms first; this isn't legal advice. Weir is read-only and isn't licensed by X, so access can change.

FAQ

Can you get notifications when someone tweets?

Yes, for free: follow the account, tap the bell on its profile and pick All posts. The X app then pushes each new post to your phone. For a team chat or a word filter, use a monitor.

How do I turn on Twitter notifications for specific accounts?

You turn on the bell one profile at a time. X lists them all under Push notifications, then Posts. One search monitor can send several accounts to one channel with from: and OR.

Can I get Twitter alerts by email?

Yes, with IFTTT. Applets built on its specific-user trigger include a weekly email digest of one account's tweets. Weir monitors send to webhooks and chat apps, not to your inbox.

Sources

All checked 7 November 2026. X's Help Center pages are Wayback copies, dated in brackets.

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