Twitter is an online social media and social networking service. You can land tweet data from Twitter as a data source when landing or replicating data. The Twitter account must be a paid subscription.
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For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.
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Data Gateway - Data Movement must be installed to land or replicate data from SaaS applications. For more information, see Qlik Data Gateway - Data Movement.
Supported update methods
For more information, see Change processing.
Landing tasks:
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Change data capture (CDC)
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Reload and compare
Replication tasks:
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Change data capture (CDC) using Change Tables
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Full load
Landing data in a data lake tasks:
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Change data capture (CDC)
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Reload
Preparing for authentication
To access your Twitter data, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.
For more information about authentication and retrieving your API key and API key secret, see Authentication.
Creating the connection
- Fill in the required connection properties.
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Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.
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Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.
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Click Create.
Setting | Description |
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Data gateway |
Select a Data Movement gateway to use when replicating data. |
Twitter username |
User name of the Twitter account. |
API key |
API key for Twitter. |
API key secret |
API key secret. |