Creating a Twitter Write Adaptor

In order to use a Twitter Write Adaptor it is best practice to create a Twitter Connection first.

From the graphs tab on the Project Home screen choose the Create button or from the hamburger menu in the top left choose . Choose the Twitter adaptor give it a name and click on the. Click on the Create Button at the bottom of the screen.

Choose the connection from the Adaptor Connection drop down menu
Choose the Write method from the Twitter Action dropdown
Choose the Twitter Write Option
Optionally provide an array of Twitter Media Ids - Xponent currently does not upload the media and these must be loaded externally. These will be 64 bit integer identifiers.

Depending on which Twitter Write option chosen you will have to provide one or more other pieces of information.

Action	User Screen Name	TweetId	Tweet Text	User Id	Note
Reply	Required	Required	Required	Not Required	Replies must start with the user screen name. This is pre-populated.
Tweet	Not Required	Not Required	Required	Not Required	Just requires the new tweet text
Retweet	Not Required	Required	Not Required	Not Required	Only requires the Id of the tweet that is being retweeted
Direct Message	Not Required	Not Required	Required	Required	Requires the user id and the message to be sent

For each of the Reply, Tweet and Retweet actions the output from the node is the new tweet object that has been created.

For the Direct Message action the value returned is the unique id of the direct message.

Validation Warnings

	Warning	Note
	Adaptor does not have connection set	It is necessary to create a connection and choose it from the Adaptor Connection drop down
	This adaptor's configuration requires a data source to be set	No data location for the output has been selected
	Parameter(s) need a data source	Some parameters have not been given data sources to read/write from.

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