Twitter Prometheus Exporter
Have you ever wanted to plot Twitter followers increasing or decreasing over time and see if they correlate to an event such as a blog post or Tweet? I have, so I build this.
This Prometheus exporter will allow you to track and monitor user metrics such as follows/unfollows, tweets and more over time to give you an idea what content is increasing or decreasing your follower count.
Usage
You'll need to Generate a twitter access token pair. The exporter doesn't need to post to Twitter, so you should set the newly created application's permissions model to "Read only".
Once that's done, export the four keys as environment variables.
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN="..."
export TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET="..."
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY="..."
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET="..."Then run the exporter, for instance:
twitter_prometheus_exporter -u=example_user
Exported metrics
The exporter provides a set of counters that can be used to determine how frequently keywords are being used.
| Metric | Notes |
|---|---|
| twitter_profile_followers_total | The total number of followers of the profile. |
| twitter_profile_following_total | The total number of accounts the profile is following |
| twitter_profile_tweets_total | Total number of tweets |
| twitter_timeline_likes_total | Total number of likes across the last n tweets |
| twitter_timeline_replies_total | Total number of replies across the last n tweets |
| twitter_timeline_retweets_total | Total number of retweets across the last n tweets |
A full sample of output can be found below:
titter_profile_followers_total{username="example_user"} 1885
twitter_profile_following_total{username="example_user"} 857
twitter_profile_tweets_total{username="example_user"} 13935
twitter_timeline_likes_total{username="example_user"} 108
twitter_timeline_replies_total{username="example_user"} 8
twitter_timeline_retweets_total{username="example_user"} 7