Overview
With dashdash’s Twitter integration it’s easy to follow users, post, and get tweets.
The new integration allows you to follow users, post tweets, monitor different hashtags, keywords, and mentions, and more. You can also combine it with other integrations like Slack and Gmail to help automate your growth processes or with the News API integration to automate the tweeting of relevant articles and posts.
Functions
Our Twitter integration has the following five custom functions:
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
FOLLOW_USER_TWITTER |
Follow up to 400 new users on Twitter per day. |
GET_FOLLOWERS_TWITTER |
Get the number of followers of a Twitter account. |
GET_FOLLOWING_TWITTER |
Get the number of people someone follows on Twitter. |
POST_TWEET_TWITTER |
Post up to 1000 tweets from your account per day. |
SEARCH_TWEETS_TWITTER |
Get the top 100 public tweets based on keywords. |
SEARCH_USERS_TWITTER |
Find up to 100 relevant users based on your keywords. |
UNFOLLOW_USER_TWITTER |
Unfollow a Twitter user. |
FOLLOW_USER_TWITTER
Use FOLLOW_USER_TWITTER to follow a Twitter account. You can follow up to 400 new users per day.
Syntax
FOLLOW_USER_TWITTER(username)
| Parameter | Mandatory | Description |
|---|---|---|
username |
Yes | Twitter screen name. For example: "dashdash". |
Examples
To follow dashdash on twitter:
=FOLLOW_USER_TWITTER("dashdash")
GET_FOLLOWERS_TWITTER
Use GET_FOLLOWERS_TWITTER to get the number of followers a Twitter account has.
Syntax
FOLLOW_USER_TWITTER(username)
| Parameter | Mandatory | Description |
|---|---|---|
username |
Yes | Twitter screen name. For example: "adidas". |
Examples
To get dashdash's number of followers:
=GET_FOLLOWERS_TWITTER("adidas")
GET_FOLLOWING_TWITTER
Use GET_FOLLOWING_TWITTER to get the number of accounts Twitter user follows.
Syntax
GET_FOLLOWING_TWITTER(username)
| Parameter | Mandatory | Description |
|---|---|---|
username |
Yes | Twitter screen name. For example: "adidas". |
Examples
To get the number of accounts adidas follows:
=GET_FOLLOWING_TWITTER("adidas")
POST_TWEET_TWITTER
Use POST_TWEET_TWITTER to post up to 1000 tweets from your account per day.
Note: You can’t use user mentions in your Tweets. This is to make sure that no one gets spammed.
Syntax
POST_TWEET_TWITTER(text)
| Parameter | Mandatory | Description |
|---|---|---|
text |
Yes | The text content of the tweet. For example: "dashdash is awesome!". |
Examples
To post dashdash is a great no-code tool on Twitter:
=POST_TWEET_TWITTER("dashdash is a great no-code tool")
SEARCH_TWEETS_TWITTER
Use SEARCH_TWEETS_TWITTER to return up to 100 of the most popular tweets matching your query.
Syntax
SEARCH_TWEETS_TWITTER(query,[type],[date],[language])
| Parameter | Mandatory | Description |
|---|---|---|
query |
Yes | Keywords to search tweets for. For example: "No-code tools", "#dashdash", or "@dashdash". |
type |
No | Specifies type of search results returned. Choose either: - "recent"- "popular"- "mixed"(default) - returns a mix between the most recent and most popular tweets |
date |
No | Returns tweets created before the given date, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD, limited to 7 previous days. For example: "2020-03-04"
|
language |
No | Language of the tweet, as given by ISO 639-1 code. For example: "en". |
Examples
To get the most popular tweets about Microsoft in English from seven days before 2020-08-06:
=SEARCH_TWEETS_TWITTER("microsoft","popular","2020-08-06","en")
SEARCH_USERS_TWITTER
Use SEARCH_USERS_TWITTER to return up to 100 Twitter users related to your query. To make things even easier, use our Users recommended table to get their name, username, follower count, account description, location, and URL all in one click.
Syntax
SEARCH_USERS_TWITTER(query)
| Parameter | Mandatory | Description |
|---|---|---|
query |
Yes | The keywords to use to find users. For example: "Apple" or "Spreadsheet geeks". |
Examples
To find users that do something related to Spreadsheets:
=SEARCH_USERS_TWITTER("Spreadsheets")
UNFOLLOW_USER_TWITTER
Use UNFOLLOW_USER_TWITTER to quickly and easily stop following a user on Twitter.
Syntax
UNFOLLOW_USER_TWITTER(username)
| Parameter | Mandatory | Description |
|---|---|---|
username |
Yes | Twitter screen name of the user to stop following. For example: "adidas". |
Examples
To unfollow Adidas:
=UNFOLLOW_USER_TWITTER("adidas")
Try It Out Now!
To try out the Twitter integration, you can get started with these pre-built templates:
Track Twitter hashtags:
Monitor track hashtags, keywords, and mentions on Twitter. You can also choose to automatically follow the users of the retrieved tweets.
Track Twitter hashtags example
Track Twitter mentions with Slack
Receive Slack alerts of your monitored hashtags, keywords, and mentions on Twitter
Follow Twitter users
Automatically follow a list of Twitter profiles.
