TwitterQuery Activity - General Tab

The General tab allows you to specify a query type. It contains the following fields.

Field Module Property? Description
Name No The name to be displayed as the label for the activity in the process.
OAuth 1.0 Parameters Yes The OAuth 1.0 shared resource includes the authentication parameters that are used to establish a connection with Twitter.

Click the icon to select an OAuth 1.0 shared resource. If no matching OAuth 1.0 shared resources are found, click Create Shared Resource to create one. See Creating an OAuth 1.0 Shared Resource for more details.

QueryType No The query type determines the endpoints of the query requests. Selects one from the following options:
  • Trends
  • Timeline
  • Friends_Followers
Timeline No A tmeline is a collection of tweets that a user follows or a user is interested in. Select one from the following options:
  • UserTimeline returns a collection of the most recent Tweets posted by the user specified in the Input tab.
  • HomeTimeline returns a collection of the most recent Tweets and retweets by the authenticating user and the users they follow. The home timeline is central to how most users interact with the Twitter service.
Note: This field is displayed only when Timeline is selected in the QueryType field.
Friends_Followers No Select to query friends or followers that the specified user has:
  • Friends queries the friends of the user specified in the Input tab.
  • Followers queries the followers fo the user specified in the Input tab.
Note: This field is displayed only when Friends_Followers is selected in the QueryType field.
Trends No A trend is the 30 most trending topics from the date specified. For more information on Trends, refer to the Twitter developer documentation at https://dev.twitter.com/overview/documentation#110.
Selects one trending topics from the following options:
  • Place returns the top 10 trending topics for a specific ID, if trending information is available for it. The response is an array of "trend" objects that encode the name of the trending topic, the query parameter that is used to search for the topic on Twitter Search, and the Twitter Search URL.
  • ClosestLocations returns the locations that Twitter has trending topic information for, closest to a specified latitude and longitude. The response is an array of "locations" that encode the location's WOEID and some other human-readable information such as a canonical name and country.
  • AvailableLocations searches for places that are attached to a statues/updates, given a latitude and a longitude pair.
Note: This field is displayed only when Trends is selected in the QueryType field.