I can't track my own tweets using the twitter4j library

Question

I am developing an application able to track some keywords from Twitter. So far I have created a FilterQuery and passed it to my TwitterStream in this way:

FilterQuery filterQuery = new FilterQuery();
filterQuery.track(new String[]{"foo1", "foo2"});
twitterStream.addListener(this)//This code is inside a class that implements StatusListener
twitterStream.filter(filterQuery);

If I put a breakpoint inside the onStatus method of the class I can see that I get many posts talking about foo1 and foo2 from different people. The problem is that if I tweet a post from my own account containing the word "foo1" or "foo2" I dont get anything. Why?

Answer 1

Because my tweets were protected. In order to make them public I went to Settings and Privacy -> Privacy and Safety and unchecked the Protect your Tweets options.