Twitter generator
Tutorial
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- Go to this page of twitter: https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps
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Click on
Create an app
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Give an
App name to your application, a
Application description, write down your
website's URL.
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Go to our admin area to the
Global Settings → Generators → Twitter and copy out the
Callback url.
and insert it into your application's Callback URLs field.
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Insert the corresponding URLs to the
Terms of Service URL,
Privacy policy URL fields and enter the name of your organization to the
Organization name field.
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Fill in the
Tell us how this app will be used field. You can probably write anything there, it is only information gathering by Twitter, just they made it required.
After it is done, press Create. - 7
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Press
Create on the popup window too.
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Go to the
Permissions tab, click
Edit and make sure the
Request email address from users is ticked, then press
Save.
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Your App is ready and you should go to the
Keys and tokens. Copy out the
Consumer API Keys (
API key and
Api secret key).
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Paste them into our admin area
Global Settings → Generators → Twitter. (Make sure that you don't have any empty space characters in the end or beginning of them.)
Press Request token.
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Fill in your twitter login details and press
Authorize app.
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After this you will see the token appearing, and you should save on your settings.
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Now the api is done, create a new dynamic slide
To get started, go to any Slider Settings page and add a new dynamic slide. Choose
Twitter
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Configuring the generator
Set up your generator. Choose the settings you want. Popular options you probably want to configure: category where your content will be pulled from, or the number of slides you want to have.
You can also click on the View Records button to see the data you'll be creating your slide with.
When you're done, click on
Add
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Editing the dynamic slide
After you saved your generator, you'll be redirected to the Slide Editor to set up the look of your slide. You can create your content by using variables.
Not sure what are the variables or how to use them? Learn how to work with variables.
Configuration
You can use these options to set what you want your generator to show.
Filter
Include retweets
Include the retweeted tweets too
Exclude replies
Exclude those tweets, which were replies to someone's tweets
Generator Settings
Learn about the Generator Settings
at the Generator Settings documentation.
Variables
These are the available variables you can use to build your dynamic slide content in the Slide Editor.
Not sure what are the variables or how to use them? Learn how to work with variables.
- author_name - The username of the author.
- author_url - Url of the author, what he can give in his settings.
- author_image - Profile picture of the author.
- message - The message of the tweet.
- url - Url to the tweet.
- userid - The id of the author.
- user_name - The name of the author.
- user_description - The description of the author.
- user_location - The location of the author.
- tweet_image - If the tweet contains an image, this will link to that.
- tweet_author_name - The name of the tweet's author.
- tweet_author_image - The profile picture of the tweet's author.