In this Power Apps Tutorial, We will discuss what is a PowerApps Twitter Connector, How to create the Twitter connection in PowerApps, and how we can use it in the app.
Also, by taking some of the simple scenarios, We will cover these below topics:
- What are the different types of functions in PowerApps Twitter
- Get the User Timeline post in PowerApps Twitter
- PowerApps Twitter get the Followers
- PowerApps get details that are following by the user
- PowerApps get information about a user
- PowerApps Twitter get User ID
- PowerApps Twitter get total Friends
- PowerApps Twitter get User Full Name
- PowerApps Twitter get User Profile Image URL
- PowerApps Twitter get User Location
- PowerApps Twitter Examples
PowerApps Twitter Connector
- As we know, Twitter is a social networking site that helps to connect people and allow people to share their ideas and thoughts publicly. Normally, we are logging in with our user name and connecting this social media site through any of the browser.
- Similarly, If you will connect the Twitter connection in the PowerApps, then you can do the same thing that you are doing using any browser.
- You can get and post tweets, timeline, friends, and followers from your Twitter account. Also, you can retrieve all the twitter details of a specific user in the app. When you are doing the same thing in PowerApps, it is known as PowerApps Twitter or PowerApps Twitter Connector.
- To view the Twitter results in PowerApps, you can use some PowerApps input controls like Label control, Gallery control, Data Table controls etc.
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Connect to Twitter in PowerApps
To connect the Twitter connection in PowerApps, follow the below instructions:
- Sign-in the PowerApps -> Go to Apps -> Select + New app -> click on Canvas as shown below.
2. Enter the new App name and choose any of the format (Tablet or Phone) that you want. hen click on the Create button.
3. Next in the PowerApps screen, click on the Data (from the left nav) -> + Add data -> Search Twitter in the search text box. If you are already signed in, then it will not ask you to signin the Twitter otherwise you need to enter your Twitter sign in credentials.
4. Then, select the Twitter Authentication Type as “Use default shared application” and tap on the Connect button. Now the twitter connection has added in the app as like the below screenshot.
PowerApps Twitter functions
Below table represents all the functions that are available in the PowerApps Twitter connection. Such as:
| Function Name | Function Description |
| UserTimeline | It helps to retrieve a collection of the most recent tweets posted by the specified user |
| HomeTimeline | It retrieves the most recent tweets and re-tweets posted me and my followers |
| SearchTweet | It helps to retrieve a collection of relevant tweets matching a specified query |
| Followers | It helps to retrieve users following the specified user |
| MyFollowers | It helps to retrieve users who are following me |
| Following | It helps to retrieve users who the specified user is following |
| MyFollowing | It helps to retrieve users that I am following |
| User | It helsp to retrieve the details about the specified user (example: user name, description, followers count, etc.) |
| Tweet | You can easily tweet any post by using this function |
| OnNewTweet | It helps to trigger a workflow when a new tweet is posted which matches your search query |
PowerApps Twitter get User Timeline post
Suppose in PowerApps, you want to retrieve the user twitter timeline post using the user name. To achieve this, you can refer to the below things.
- Insert a Data table control and apply the below code on its Items property as:
Items = Twitter.UserTimeline(
"@SahuS93336854",
{maxResults: 5}
).TweetTextWhere,
“@SahuS93336854” = you need to provide your Twitter User Name
- After this, you need to add the fields from the Edit field section of the data table control.
- Once you will save and preview the app, you can see upto maximum 5 number of twitter timeline post in the data table. As there is no post in my twitter account, thats why the data table is showing as blank.
PowerApps Twitter get the Followers
Here we will see how to get all the followers of a specifc user in PowerApps Twitter.
- To workaround with this, add a Gallery control and set the below code on its Items property as:
Items = Twitter.MyFollowing({maxResults:7})
- When you will save and preview the app, you can see all the twitter follower details (maximum seven number of details) in the gallery control as shown above.
PowerApps get details that are following by the user
- In PowerApps Twitter, to retrieve all the details that are following by the user, you can insert the below formula on gallery’s Items property as:
Items = Twitter.Following(
"@SahuS93336854",
{maxResults: 7}
)Refer to the below screenshot.
- Once you will save and preview the app, you can see the result (maximum seven number of details) in the gallery control as shown above.
PowerApps get information about a user
Here I will discuss some of the twitter function examples that how you can get the information about a user using PowerApps Twitter connection. Check out the below scenarios. For all the scenarios, you can take a Label control and display the result over there.
Example – 1: (PowerApps Twitter get User ID)
In this scenario, We will see how to get the twitter user ID in PowerApps.
- Select the label and set its Text property to the below code as:
Text = "Twitter User ID: " & Twitter.User("@SahuS93336854").Id
- When you will save and preview the app, the specific user Id will display in the label control as shown below.
Example – 2: (PowerApps Twitter get total Friends)
In this scenario, We will see how to get the total number of friends in PowerApps twitter.
- Select the label and set its Text property to the below code as:
Text = "Twitter Total Friends: " & Twitter.User("@SahuS93336854").FriendsCount
- When you will save and preview the app, the total number of friends will display in the label control as shown below.
Example – 3: (PowerApps Twitter get User Full Name)
- To get the twitter user full name in PowerApps, apply the below formula on Label’s Text property as:
Text = "Twitter User Full Name: " & Twitter.User("@SahuS93336854").FullNameRefer to the below screenshot.
- Just save and preview the app. You can see the result (like Preeti Sahu) in the label control as shown in the above screenahot.
Example – 4: (PowerApps Twitter get User Profile Image URL)
- To get the twitter profile image url in PowerApps, apply the below code on the Label’s Text property:
Text = "Twitter User Profile Image URL: " & Twitter.User("@SahuS93336854").ProfileImageUrlRefer to the below figure.
- Save and preview the app. The specific profile image url will appear as like the above screenshot.
Example – 5: (PowerApps Twitter get User Location)
- Next, do you want to retrieve the specific user location by using PowerApps Twitter connector? If so, then set the below code on Label’s Text property as:
Text = "Twitter User Location: " & Twitter.User("@SahuS93336854").Location
- Once you will save and preview the app, it will show you the location that is specified by the user in twitter account.
PowerApps Twitter Examples
Check out the below simple PowerApps Twitter example.
Send a Tweet in PowerApps
- This scenario describes how you can post a tweet through the PowerApps easily. For this, We need a Text input control and a Button input that looks like below figure.
- Here the user will enter the text and tap on the POST button. Once the user will click on it, then the tweet will post in the twitter.
- To achieve this, Select the Button control and set its OnSelect property to the below code as:
OnSelect = Twitter.Tweet(
"",
{tweetText: txtMyTweet.Text}
)Where,
txtMyTweet = Specify the text input control name
This is how to send a Tweet in PowerApps.
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In this Power Apps Tutorial, We discussed what is a PowerApps Twitter Connector, How to create the Twitter connection in PowerApps, and its use in the app.
- Different types of PowerApps Twitter functions
- Get the User Timeline post in PowerApps Twitter
- PowerApps Twitter get the Followers
- PowerApps get details that are following by the user
- PowerApps get information about a user
- PowerApps Twitter get User ID
- PowerApps Twitter get total Friends
- PowerApps Twitter get User Full Name
- PowerApps Twitter get User Profile Image URL
- PowerApps Twitter get User Location
- PowerApps Twitter Examples
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