Tracking user engagement with your social media activity is critical to understanding what kind of content is performing well and should be continued. Unfortunately, Twitter’s Engagement API is an enterprise-level offering, requiring a special contract with their sales team. Fortunately, you can use the regular Twitter API to achieve a similar result. This tutorial will walk you through how to get the impression count, profile visit count and link click count from your most recent tweets.
Get your Twitter User ID
You will need to translate your Twitter username from its handle form (eg
SyncWithHQ) into its ID form (eg 1394672120425242628). We’ll use the users by username endpoint to do this in the form below. Give it a try, using your username: