Use PowerExchange for Twitter to search and extract Twitter data such as tweets that are six to nine days old. You can create a Twitter connection to read historical Twitter data into a Twitter data object. You use open authentication (OAuth) to send secure authorized requests to Twitter.

You can extract near real-time Twitter data such as public statuses or a sample of statuses. You can create a Twitter streaming connection to continuously read real-time Twitter data into a Twitter streaming data object. A Twitter streaming connection requires OAuth authentication to send secure authorized requests to Twitter.

PowerExchange for Twitter uses Twitter API methods and resources to search and extract Twitter data. You can use Twitter search operators to define the search criteria. For example, you create a Twitter connection and define a query that searches for tweets with a positive attitude containing a keyword such as "Informatica." For real-time data, use a Twitter streaming connection to continuously read tweets that include a keyword. You can load the extracted data to a target and then use the data for data mining and analysis.

For information about the Twitter APIs, see the Twitter API documentation at the following website:

For information about the Twitter Developer usage policies, see the Twitter Developer Rules at the following website: