Description
The Twitter Interface Asset (IA) retrieves the latest list of text and image-based tweets for a given search term.
NOTE : There is a five minute delay between when a tweet appears on Twitter and when that tweet will appear in Intuiface after a refresh of the Twitter interface asset.
Video Example
Properties, Triggers & Actions
These properties are used to determine which tweets are returned by Twitter.
Properties
- Search query any string of text
- Result type the type of search results. Three options are available
- Mixed Include both popular and real time results
- Recent return only the most recent results
- Popular return only the most popular results
- Result language filter return only results in the language specified
- Show replies toggle whether to show replies in the search results
- Tweet filter applies a filter to search results based upon their content
- All tweets return both text and media tweets
- Only with media return only tweets containing images
- Only with text return only tweets containing pure text
These properties are associated with each individual tweet returned by the search query. They are read-only and can only be accessed through the use of binding.
- Author
- User name user name, preceded by the @ symbol
- Profile name full name
- Profile image URL image, if available
- Original Author [contains values if tweet is a retweet]
- User name user name for original tweet, preceded by the @ symbol
- Profile name full name
- Profile image URL image, if available
- Text the tweet
- Created at posting time and date of the tweet
- Elapsed time time since tweet was posted
- Media URL URL for the image embedded in the tweet
- is Reply identifies whether the tweet is a reply. Value is either True or False
- is Retweet identified whether the tweet is a retweet. Value is either True or False
- Tweet Count number of tweets currently displayed in the feed
Triggers
- No media returned: Raised when the Twitter search returns no results.
- Result found: Raised when the Twitter search returns one or more results.
- Search in progress: Raised when the Twitter search is still in progress.
Actions
- Get more tweets: Get the next ten tweets for the current search
- New query: Enter new search term
- Search query: the new search query
- Update: Update the tweet list
Data Template for the Twitter Interface Asset
Any Intuiface user can modify the default visual representation of the Twitter IA. This visual representation - specified by a data template - can access and manipulate all of the tweet properties listed above.
Search query operators
The query can have operators that modify its behavior, the available operators are:
- watching now - containing both “watching” and “now”. This is the default operator.
- “happy hour” - containing the exact phrase “happy hour”.
- love OR hate - containing either “love” or “hate” (or both).
- beer -root - containing “beer” but not “root”.
- #haiku - containing the hashtag “haiku”.
- from:alexiskold - sent from Twitter account “alexiskold”.
- to:techcrunch - sent to person “techcrunch”.
- @mashable - referencing person “mashable”.
- superhero since:2015-07-19 - containing “superhero” and sent since date “2015-07-19” (year-month-day).
- ftw until:2015-07-19 - containing “ftw” and sent before the date “2015-07-19”.
- movie -scary :) - containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude.
- flight :( - containing “flight” and with a negative attitude.
- traffic ? - containing “traffic” and asking a question.
- hilarious filter:links - containing “hilarious” and linking to URL.
- news source:twitterfeed - containing “news” and entered via TwitterFeed
Intuiface uses Twitter's Standard Search operators which has limitations, such as a seven day history for searches. For a comparison with Twitter's other search tiers, see the image below or the search tier-comparison page.
Known Limitations
- Tweets with image url's are not supported. Tweets must have an uploaded image not an url.
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