Before you start
To create a Twitter application to associate with your site, you need:
- to be either the Site Owner or a Site Administrator
- access to a Twitter account
To create a Twitter application for your site:
- In Site Settings, go to the Twitter API tab
- Click the link to the Twitter Application Management site (1)
- Sign in using your Twitter account details
- If you haven't created a Twitter Developer account already, create one before moving to the next step
- Once you have a Developer account, create a new App by clicking on the 'Create an App' button
- Follow the steps to provide information about the app you're creating
Note: you just need to provide information about the fact that you want to display a Twitter timeline using the Mosaic platform's in-built styling for Tweets
- During the app creation process you will be provided with the following set of keys:
- Consumer Key
- Consumer Secret
- Access Token
- Access Token Secret
- Copy and paste these credentials to the input fields on the Twitter API tab (2)
- Save Site settings
Twitter feeds can now be created for your site. See the Feeds documentation for more information.