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Twitter Connection Properties

Use a Twitter connection to extract data from the Twitter web site. The Twitter connection is a connection to social media. You can create and manage a Twitter connection in the Administrator tool or the Developer tool.

The order of the connection properties might vary depending on the tool where you view them.

The following table describes Twitter connection properties:

Property	Description
Name	Name of the connection. The name is not case sensitive and must be unique within the domain. The name cannot exceed 128 characters, contain spaces, or contain the following special characters: ~ ` ! $ % ^ & * ( ) - + = { [ } ] \| \ : ; " ' < , > . ? /
ID	String that the Data Integration Service uses to identify the connection. The ID is not case sensitive. It must be 255 characters or less and must be unique in the domain. You cannot change this property after you create the connection. Default value is the connection name.
Description	The description of the connection. The description cannot exceed 765 characters.
Location	The domain where you want to create the connection.
Type	The connection type. Select Twitter.
Do you have OAuth details?	Indicates whether you want to configure OAuth. Select one of the following values: Yes. Indicates that you have the access token and secret. No. Launches the OAuth Utility.
Consumer Key	The consumer key that you get when you create the application in Twitter. Twitter uses the key to identify the application.
Consumer Secret	The consumer secret that you get when you create the Twitter application. Twitter uses the secret to establish ownership of the consumer key.
Access Token	Access token that the OAuth Utility returns. Twitter uses this token instead of the user credentials to access the protected resources.
Access Secret	Access secret that the OAuth Utility returns. The secret establishes ownership of a token.

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