Creating Twitter Application
Before using Twitter Alerts, users must prepare their Twitter account as follows:
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Create a Twitter account if the customer does not have one yet.
To do so, logon to http://www.Twitter.com and sign up.
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Create a Twitter application if the customer does not have one setup yet.
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To do so, point the web browser to http://twitter.com/apps
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Enter the logon and password to see the application screen.
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Click on the button ‘Create a new application‘; then enter all the required information.
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Agree to the ‘Rules of the Road‘, enter the required text, then click on the button
‘Create your Twitter application‘.
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Configure the Twitter application to have at least read/write permissions.
Click on the tab ‘Settings‘, and change the Application Type to ‘Read/Write‘, then click on ‘Update this Twitter application’s setting‘ to update.
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Go back to tab ‘Details‘ and write down Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.
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Configure TW_TWEET and test Tweet.
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If everything is set up properly, users should be able to see the test Tweet on the Twitter site.
