Overview
When building an Automation, you may choose the action called “Twitter: post tweet". When the automation runs successfully, a post will be made to the connected Twitter account. The "Twitter: post tweet" action can be configured with one or more fields set to any text or to a value from a previous step or both.
NOTE
Automations is in active development and more functionality is on the way. If you have any feedback to offer, feel free to share that with us here
Setup
To use this automation action, you’ll need a Twitter account. We do not currently support posting to personal profiles.
Choose a trigger
To start, create a new automation. You’ll then need to set up a trigger that will cause this automation to run. So essentially you'll want to pinpoint what should kick off this automation to post your content to Twitter.
Add an action
To add an action, connect to the Twitter account you want to post to. You can now set up your message to include custom information including text, emojis, and information from records in Airtable. You can also add a link and attachments to include in your post.
After your message looks the way you want it to you must click "Run test" to ensure the action is working properly.
FAQs
Can I post images or videos?
Yes - you can post Airtable attachments as images and videos. However, there are certain limitations:
- Supported image formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WEBP
- Supported video formats: MP4, Quicktime
- Maximum number of attachments per Tweet: 4 static images, 1 GIF, or 1 video.
- A Tweet cannot contain a mix of static images, GIFs and videos.
- Maximum file sizes: 5MB for static images, 15MB for GIFs and videos.
Can I @mention someone using this action?
Unfortunately, in order to comply with Twitter’s anti-spam rules, tweets cannot contain @mentions in our Automations.