Creating Twitter feeds
To view Twitter report data, you must first create Twitter feeds.
About this task
To create a Twitter feed:
Procedure
- From Feeds located under Manage in the side navigation pane, click Add Feed in the Feeds List to open the Create Feed dialog.
- In the dialog, enter a Feed Name and Description, and select Twitter for the Feed Type.
- Enter the twitter search terms you want to track.
- Associate business units with this feed by dragging and dropping a business unit from the Available Business Units list to the Selected Business Units list.
- Click Save.
Example
You can add up to 30 search terms to the Twitter Search Terms dialog box to specify the types of posts you want to collect for a given feed. Be sure to follow the Twitter search syntax, which requires you to separate each "term" by an 'OR' so the feed looks for all posts that contain one thing OR the others. The table below provides examples of various search terms and the resulting tweets it adds to your feed.
| Terms | Finds tweets... |
|---|---|
| twitter search | Containing both "twitter" and "search". This is the default operator. |
| "happy hour" | Containing the exact phrase "happy hour". |
| love OR hate | Containing either "love" or "hate" (or both). |
| beer -root | Containing "beer" but not "root". |
| #haiku | Containing the hashtag "haiku". |
| from:alexiskold | Sent from person "alexiskold". |
| to:techcrunch | Sent to person "techcrunch". |
| @mashable | Referencing person "mashable". |
| "happy hour" near:"san francisco" | Containing the exact phrase "happy hour" and sent near "san francisco". |
| near:NYC within:15mi | Sent within 15 miles of "NYC". |
| superhero since:2010-10-18 | Containing "superhero" and sent since date "2010-10-18". |
| ftw until:2010-10-18 | Containing "ftw" and sent up to date "2010-10-18". |
| movie -scary :) | Containing "movie", but not "scary", and with a positive attitude. |
| flight :( | Containing "flight" and with a negative attitude. |
| traffic ? | Containing "traffic" and asking a question. |
| hilarious filter:links | Containing "hilarious" and linking to URLs. |
| news source:twitterfeed | Containing "news" and entered through TwitterFeed. |