A step-by-step guide on how to monitor a Twitter account

Our premium accounts have access to the Twitter API.

Step-by-step guide

Follow the steps below to monitor a Twitter account efficiently:

1. Navigate to your workspace through account.midesk.co

2. Click on the Monitoring tab.

3. Click on the Create Job button.
4. Select Twitter from the available Monitoring Recipes.
5. Choose the default database where you’d like the monitored data (such as KPIs, descriptions, and raw tweets) to be stored.
6. Proceed by clicking on the Continue and then the Test Connection buttons to validate that the correct Twitter account has been connected.
7. (Optional) To direct tweets to a specific channel, go to the Midesk Twitter (Tweets) task and select your desired news channel from the dropdown menu.
8. Complete the setup by clicking ‘Save Job’.

The monitoring job will be picked up by the scheduler and will start running at the next scheduled time. For a visual guide, watch the video tutorial below.