Twitter

The Twitter (X) message source type reads tweets from a Timeline, @mentions feed or for any search term. This Message Source is useful for monitoring your own (or another business) Twitter feed and performing actions if certain words appear in Tweets.

Requires a paid Twitter Basic or Pro level developer account. See: Twitter Developer Portal

From the Read Tweets For list select one of:

Type	Details
User Timeline	Reads new tweets for any Twitter user. Enter the Twitter Handle (you don't need to enter the @ sign). The Twitter handle can be found by opening a Twitter users feed.
User Mentions	Reads new tweets that mention the specified Twitter Handle.
Search Term	Reads new tweets that match the specified Search Term.

For Search Term queries you can select to Exclude Replies and/or Retweets.

When a new Tweet message is received ThinkAutomation will create a new message that can be processed by your Automations. The message will be in the following format:

{
  "author_id": "1629799226",
  "created_at": "2021-11-24T09:21:05+00:00",
  "id": "1463437507513798656",
  "text": "Test tweet",
  "lang": "en",
  "name": "Parker Software",
  "username": "ParkerSoftware"
}

You can then parse this message and perform Automation Actions.

When you create a Twitter Message Source using the New Message Source Wizard an Automation will be automatically created with Extract Field Actions setup to extract the above data.

When a new Twitter Message Source is created, ThinkAutomation will read the most recent 200 Tweets. From then on it will read new Tweets as they are added. You can reset the Sync status by clicking the Reset Sync State button. The most recent 200 tweets will then be processed again (provided they have been removed from the Message Store).

Note: You will need to create your own X Developer account with Basic or Pro level access. The free tier cannot be used.

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