Use a Twitter connection to extract Twitter data that is between six and nine days old such as user profiles, friend's IDs, and tweets. A Twitter connection requires OAuth to access the Twitter data. You must create a Twitter application before you create a Twitter connection. You can configure the OAuth in the OAuth Utility or in the Developer tool.

Use a Twitter streaming connection for streaming, real-time access to public statuses. You can filter the statuses by a keyword or extract a random sample of public statuses. A Twitter streaming connection requires OAuth authentication. You can configure the OAuth in the OAuth Utility or in the Developer tool.