# How to monitor Twitter for user posting a new tweet

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**Category:** Help and Support\
**Tags:** twitter, social-media\
**Created:** [July 18, 2022, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.distill.io/t/how-to-monitor-twitter-for-user-posting-a-new-tweet/998 "2022-07-18T08:57:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![ajitk](https://forums.distill.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@ajitk](https://forums.distill.io/u/ajitk)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.distill.io/t/how-to-monitor-twitter-for-user-posting-a-new-tweet/998/21 "2025-04-29T08:45:15Z")

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@brantfl the following selector selects the tweet text:

`[role=article] [data-testid=tweetText]`

i also increased the “wait for duration” to 5 seconds to give the page a bit more time to load:

 ![image](https://forums.distill.io/uploads/default/original/2X/6/62fe4930be633478186e436b6ac497f9f5093d4e.png)

here is the monitor’s exported json that i tested:

[export - twitter-x.com.json](https://forums.distill.io/uploads/short-url/2VL5yy4f8RPQyyv2W3ZHMZYUPpx.json) (704 Bytes)

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