I am looking through the Tweepy API and not quite sure how to find the event to register for when a user either send or receives a new tweet.  I looked into the Streaming API but it seems like that is only sampling the Twitter fire house and not really meant for looking at one indvidual user.  What I am trying to do is have my program update whenever something happens to the user.  Essentially what a user would see if they were in their account on the twitter homepage.  So my question is: What is the method or event I should be looking for in the Tweepy API to make this happen?
I used the .filter function then filtered for the user I was looking for.
How to register an event for when a user has a new tweet?