How To setup a Twitter data source

TDM offers the ability to add external data sources. With these data sources TDM offers the ability to display real-time information within your presentation. TDM offers support for the following external data sources:

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Instagram

• Yahoo Weather

• Office365 Calendar

• Google Calendar

• Flickr

• Yammer

• LinkedIn

• Exchange

• Power BI

• NS

• Axis (People Counter camera)

• HIKVision (People Counter camera)

This guide will explain how the Twitter data source can be added.

Requirements

1. Please login to the designer with an administrator account: https://designer.tdmsignage.com 
   
   
   

2. Select “Config Panel”.

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3. Select the tab called “External Data”.

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4. Select the “+” button on the right side to create a new data source.

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5. In the pop-up which will open you can fill in a name for your data source and then select the “Twitter” data source. Once selected, click “Next”.

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6. In the next window you can choose the account or hashtag you want to use for your data source, you can choose to tick some of the options mentioned below:
   
   

   Show urls in tweets: Select if you want to show urls in your tweets or if you want to filter them out

   
   All search words in a tweet: Select if you want to show all tweets containing the selected hashtag instead of just tweets from a specified account

   
   Show retweets: Select if you also want to show the retweets of an account (if an account is filled in)

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   Once you have configured the data source select “Save” to save the data source.
   
   
   

7. Now that you have successfully created a Twitter data source, it is possible to preview the information of the data source with the “eye” icon in front of the data source.

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You can use the following link to download this manual as a PDF-file.

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