Twitter Streaming connector

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About streaming from Twitter

The Twitter API platform offers two options for streaming real-time Tweets: follow a Twitter user or track keywords.

Create a Twitter Stream Feed Connection to stream Twitts in real-time.

Prerequisites

To stream data from Twitter, you first need to create a Twitter app (if you have not done it already).

Create a Connection

Step 1. In the Connections window, click +, and select Twitter.

Step 2. Select Twitter Streaming Feed.

Step 3. Enter the Connection parameters:

Connection parameters

• User IDs or Hashtags: comma-separated list of numeric Twitter User IDs to follow or (not and!) a comma-separated list of keywords (#hashtags) to track.
• Consumer Key: the consumer key, assigned to the Twitter app created by you.
• Consumer Secret: the consumer secret, assigned to the Twitter app created by you.
• Access Token: the access token assigned to the Twitter app created by you.
• Access Token Secret: the access token secret, assigned to the Twitter app created by you.
• Stream Duration (sec): the duration of the stream in seconds. The maximum duration is 999 seconds. The Connection to the Twitter API will reset once the time elapses the configured number.
• Flatten Status: Twitter streaming API returns highly nested JSON document. Enable this parameter to convert nested JSON into the flat one.
• Template: since this Connection cannot sample the data to populate fields for the Mapping, use this field to define the structure of the returned JSON. Example:

• {"createdAt":1556736197000,"id":1123659171822473218,"text":"twitt",
  "lang":"en","userId":1113524423,
  "userName":"test","userScreenName":"test",
  "userEmail":null,"userURL":"url"}