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This connector is available in the following products and regions:

ServiceClassRegions
Logic AppsStandardAll Logic Apps regions except the following:
- Azure China regions
Power AutomateStandardAll Power Automate regions except the following:
- US Government (GCC High)
- China Cloud operated by 21Vianet
Power AppsStandardAll Power Apps regions except the following:
- US Government (GCC High)
- China Cloud operated by 21Vianet
Contact
NameMicrosoft
URLMicrosoft LogicApps Support
Microsoft Power Automate Support
Microsoft Power Apps Support
Connector Metadata
PublisherMicrosoft
Websitehttps://twitter.com/
Privacy policyhttps://twitter.com/privacy

Authentication and Bring your own application

The Twitter connector now supports multiple authentication types:

  • Use default shared application
  • Bring your own application

The default shared application uses a Twitter Client application maintained by Microsoft. In this case, when you sign into your Twitter account, you'll be asked to consent to the Microsoft Power Platform application.

With 'Bring your own application' option, you can use your own Twitter OAuth Client application instead of the one managed by Microsoft. Doing so will allow you to control permissions and enable certain limitations on the use of the connector.

To use your own Twitter OAuth Client application with the Twitter connector, you'll need to perform the following steps:

  1. Create an OAuth client application using Twitter developer page (https://developer.twitter.com)
  2. Use the application in the Twitter connector

Creating an OAuth Client Application in Twitter

To create your own Twitter OAuth client application, you'll need to first sign in to https://developer.twitter.com.Navigate to the 'Projects & Apps' section which is where you can manage and create twitter applications.This process is explained in Twitter's Twitter Developer Guide. After creating twitter app on developer page following steps are required for proper setup:

  • Select your twitter app
  • Edit app permissions to enable read and write.
  • Edit authentication settings
    • Enable 3rd party authentication
    • Add 'https://global.consent.azure-apim.net/redirect' for the callback URLs (NOTE: If you are using Fairfax subscription or GCC environment look at 'Fairfax and GCC callbacks' section)
    • Set 'Website URL' (required field, but it's value does not affect the flow)

Fairfax and GCC callbacks

If you are using Fairfax subscription or GCC environment add the following URLs for the callback URLs of your Twitter app:

  • For Fairfax:
  • For GCC:

Once you're done, select your twitter app and navigate to the 'Keys and tokens' page. In the 'Consumer Keys' section, click on 'View Keys' button, to get the API key and the API key secret of your app. You can now use those values in your Twitter connection.

Using your own application in the Twitter connector

Once you create the Twitter OAuth client application, you can use it while creating a Twitter connection.

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  • Select Bring your own application.
  • Specify the Client ID and Client secret values from your application. (Use the API key and the API key secret of your Twitter app)

Click on Sign in to sign into your Twitter account. This will prompt you to sign in to your Twitter account, and then authorize access to the Twitter app that you created above.

LIMITS

The following are some of the limits and restrictions:

  1. Maximum number of connections per user: 2
  2. API call rate limit for POST operation: 12 per hour
  3. API call rate limit for other operations: 600 per hour
  4. Frequency of trigger polls: 1 hour
  5. Maximum size of image upload: 5 MB
  6. Maximum size of video upload: 15 MB
  7. Maximum number of search results: 100
  8. Maximum number of new tweets tracked within one polling interval: 5
  9. Maximum allowed 'Search text' parameter value length is 470

Restrictions of Twitter API

  1. Search API searches against a sampling of recent Tweets published in the past 7 days
  2. Standard search API is focused on relevance and not completeness. This means that some Tweets and users may be missing from search results

Additional restrictions for POST operation

Mentioning a @user while posting a tweet is not supported. Specifically, the '@' characters will be stripped while posting a tweet.

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General Limits

NameValue
Connections per account2

Creating a connection

The connector supports the following authentication types:

Bring your own applicationSign in using your own Twitter app. For more details see 'Authentication and Bring your own application' section on this page.All regionsNot shareable
Use default shared applicationSign in using the standard Twitter app.All regionsNot shareable
Default [DEPRECATED]This option is only for older connections without an explicit authentication type, and is only provided for backward compatibility.All regionsNot shareable

Bring your own application

Auth ID: byoa

Applicable: All regions

Sign in using your own Twitter app. For more details see 'Authentication and Bring your own application' section on this page.

This is not shareable connection. If the power app is shared with another user, another user will be prompted to create new connection explicitly.

NameTypeDescription
Consumer KeystringConsumer key of your Twitter application
Consumer SecretsecurestringClient secret of your Twitter application

Use default shared application

Auth ID: shared-application

Applicable: All regions

Sign in using the standard Twitter app.

This is not shareable connection. If the power app is shared with another user, another user will be prompted to create new connection explicitly.

Default [DEPRECATED]

Applicable: All regions

This option is only for older connections without an explicit authentication type, and is only provided for backward compatibility.

This is not shareable connection. If the power app is shared with another user, another user will be prompted to create new connection explicitly.

Actions

Get followers

This operation gets the list of users that follow a given user.

Get following

The operation gets the list of people the given user follows.

Get home timeline

This operation gets the most recent tweets and re-tweets posted by me and my followers.

Get my followers

This operation gets the list of users who are following me.

Get my following

This operation gets the list of users that I am following.

Get user

This operation gets the profile details for a given user, such as user name, description, followers count, and more.

Get user timeline

This operation gets a list of the most recent tweets posted by a given user.

Post a tweet

This operation posts a new tweet.

Retweet

This operation retweets a tweet.

Search tweets

This operation gets a list of relevant tweets matching the search query.

Get followers

This operation gets the list of users that follow a given user.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
userName True string

Twitter handle for the user.

Maximum results
maxResults integer

Maximum number of users to return.

Returns

Get following

The operation gets the list of people the given user follows.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
userName True string

Twitter handle for the user.

Maximum results
maxResults integer

Maximum number of users to return.

Returns

Get home timeline

This operation gets the most recent tweets and re-tweets posted by me and my followers.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
maxResults integer

Maximum number of tweets to return.

Returns

response
array of TweetModel

Get my followers

This operation gets the list of users who are following me.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
maxResults integer

Maximum number of users to get.

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Returns

response
array of UserDetailsModel

Get my following

This operation gets the list of users that I am following.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
maxResults integer

Maximum number of users to return.

Returns

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response
array of UserDetailsModel

Get user

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This operation gets the profile details for a given user, such as user name, description, followers count, and more.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
userName True string

Twitter handle for the user.

Returns

Represents a user.

Body
UserDetailsModel

Get user timeline

This operation gets a list of the most recent tweets posted by a given user.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
userName True string

Twitter handle for the user.

Maximum results
maxResults integer

Maximum number of tweets to return.

Returns

Post a tweet

This operation posts a new tweet.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
tweetText string

Text to be posted.

Media
body binary

Media to be posted.

Returns

Represents the response of a tweet post.

Retweet

This operation retweets a tweet.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
tweetId True string

Tweet to be retweeted.

Trim user
trimUser boolean

Boolean to indicate whether to trim user information.

Returns

Represents the response of a tweet post.

Search tweets

This operation gets a list of relevant tweets matching the search query.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
searchQuery True string

Search term like 'happy hour', #haiku, from:@username, love OR hate.

Maximum results
maxResults integer

Maximum number of tweets to return.

sinceId string

Return tweets after the specified tweet ID.

Returns

response
array of TweetModel

Triggers

When a new tweet is posted

This operation triggers a flow when a new tweet that matches a given search query is posted.

When a new tweet is posted

This operation triggers a flow when a new tweet that matches a given search query is posted.

Parameters

NameKeyRequiredTypeDescription
searchQuery True string

Search term like 'happy hour', #haiku, from:@username, love OR hate.

Returns

Represents a wrapper object for batch trigger response

Body
TriggerBatchResponse[TweetModel]

Definitions

TweetModel

Represents a tweet post.

NamePathTypeDescription
TweetText string

Text content of the tweet

Tweet id
TweetId string

Id of the tweet

CreatedAtIso string

Time at which the tweet was posted

Retweet count
RetweetCount integer

Total number of re-tweets for the tweet

TweetedBy string

Name of the user who has posted the tweet

Media urls
MediaUrls array of string

Url of the media posted along with the tweet

TweetLanguageCode string

Language code of the tweet

in_reply_to_user_id
TweetInReplyToUserId string

User Id of the author of the tweet that the current tweet is a reply to

Favorited boolean

Indicates whether the tweet is marked as favorited or not

User mentions
UserMentions array of UserMentionsModel

List of users mentioned in the tweet

OriginalTweet OriginalTweetModel

Represents an original tweet post.

UserDetails
UserDetails UserDetailsModel

Represents a user.

UserMentionsModel

Represents a user mentioned in a tweet.

NamePathTypeDescription
Id integer

Twitter id (handle) of the user

Mentioned user full name
FullName string

Full name of the user

UserName string

Screen name of the user

OriginalTweetModel

Represents an original tweet post.

NamePathTypeDescription
TweetText string

Text content of the original retrieved tweet

Original tweet id
TweetId string

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CreatedAtIso string

Time at which original tweet was posted

Original tweet retweet count
RetweetCount integer

Total number of re-tweets for this original tweet

TweetedBy string

User name of the person who posted the original tweet

Original tweet media urls
MediaUrls array of string

Url of the media posted along with the original tweet

TweetLanguageCode string

Language code for the original tweet

Original tweet in_reply_to_user_id
TweetInReplyToUserId string

User Id of the author of the tweet that the current original tweet is a reply to

Favorited boolean

Indicates whether the original tweet is marked as favorited

Original tweet user mentions
UserMentions array of OriginalTweetUserMentionsModel

The list of user mentioned in the tweet

UserDetails OriginalTweetUserDetailsModel

Represents a user who posted an original tweet

UserDetailsModel

Represents a user.

NamePathTypeDescription
FullName string

Name of the user

Location
Location string

Location of the user

Id integer

Twitter id (handle) of the user

User name
UserName string

Screen name of the user

FollowersCount integer

Number of followers

Description
Description string

User description

StatusesCount integer

User status count

Friends count
FriendsCount integer

Number of friends

FavouritesCount integer

Number of tweets that the user has favorited

Profile image url
ProfileImageUrl string

Url of the profile image

OriginalTweetUserMentionsModel

Represents a user mentioned in an original tweet.

NamePathTypeDescription
Id integer

Twitter id (handle) of the user

Original tweet mentioned user full name
FullName string

Full name of the user

UserName string

Screen name of the user

OriginalTweetUserDetailsModel

Represents a user who posted an original tweet

NamePathTypeDescription
FullName string

Name of the user

Original tweet user Location
Location string

Location of the user

Id integer

Twitter id (handle) of the user

Original tweet user name
UserName string

Screen name of the user

FollowersCount integer

Number of followers

Original tweet user Description
Description string

User description

StatusesCount integer

User status count

Original tweet user friends count
FriendsCount integer

Number of friends

FavouritesCount integer

Number of tweets that the user has favorited

Original tweet user profile image url
ProfileImageUrl string

Url of the profile image

TweetResponseModel

Represents the response of a tweet post.

NamePathTypeDescription
TweetId string

ID of the tweet posted

TriggerBatchResponse[TweetModel]

Represents a wrapper object for batch trigger response

NamePathTypeDescription
value array of TweetModel

A list of the response objects

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Twitter will only send you emails from @twitter.com or @e.twitter.com. However, some people may receive fake or suspicious emails that look like they were sent by Twitter. These emails might include malicious attachments or links to spam or phishing websites. Please know that Twitter will never send emails with attachments or request your Twitter password by email.

If you receive a fake email

  • Delete the email from your inbox. Don't download any attachments from these emails.
  • Find more account security tips in our Help Center.

Frequently asked questions

What's phishing?

Phishing scammers send fraudulent messages to a large number of people, in an attempt to trick them into revealing private information, like a password. An email or website may be disguised to appear legitimate.

It can be difficult to recognize a spoofed email as they may look very convincing or appear to come from a Twitter email address. You can check the headers of an email to find out more about the source of the message, and you should be suspicious of new or unexpected emails. Twitter doesn't send emails with attachments, and will never ask you to provide your password via email, Direct Message, or reply.

What if I'm worried that someone has access to my Twitter username and password?

If you suspect your account has been compromised, you can find out what to do on our compromised accounts help page.

If Twitter believes your account has been hacked, we may reset the account password to prevent the hacker from misusing your account. In this case, we'll email you a secure link to where you can select a new password. Again, this link will always be on the https://twitter.com website, and we never ask you to provide your password via email, Direct Message, or reply.

Why am I getting these fake emails?

Twitter doesn't send these emails. The FTC has a help page that describes some ways spammers may find your email address: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/.

For more information about Twitter's policies on information collection, as well as disclosure and sharing, please visit our privacy page at https://twitter.com/privacy.

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