{"id":3974,"date":"2018-12-13T12:33:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2018-12-13T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T17:55:47","slug":"did-you-know-microsoft-teams-has-a-twitter-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3974","title":{"rendered":"Did you know \u2026 Microsoft Teams has a Twitter connector?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft publishes outage notifications several places \u2013there\u2019s a web portal that provides general status for major Office 365 outages,a customer-only portal that provides a LOT of details on every diminished service state, a Twitter feed with status on wide-spread outages. The common feature of all of these, though, is *checking* to see if there\u2019s an outage \u2013start seeing several calls for the same problem, check the outage site. It works, but it is not proactive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter <em>could<\/em> be proactive, but I don\u2019t want to be diving for my phone every time a friend posts some random musing. But Microsoft Teams connects to Twitter, <em>and<\/em> it posts filtered content into a channel,so I only see pertinent information in our Teams channel. The connector can also search hash tags \u2013 useful for tracking brand mentions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can include Twitter posts into an existing channel or create a new one. I am creating a new channel to separate Twitter posts from other conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"452\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector01.png 672w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector01-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the not-quite-a hamburger menu next to the channel into which you want Twitter posts to appear and select \u201cConnectors\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"417\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector02.png 734w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector02-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Locate \u201cTwitter\u201d and click \u201cConfigure\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1016\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector03.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector03.png 1016w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector03-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector03-768x516.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You will need to configure a Twitter account before you can configure the connector. I recommend <em>not\u00a0<\/em>using your personal account. Create a new account to be used by your Teams space. If ownership of the Teams space changes, the new owner can take over the Twitter account too. Click \u201cLog in\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"252\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector04.png 800w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector04-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector04-768x242.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Click \u201cContinue\u201d to proceed with Twitter authentication<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"436\" height=\"135\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector05.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector05.png 436w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector05-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You are allowing the Twitter connector to use your account \u2013 read the access request and sign in if the usage is acceptable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector06.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector06.png 368w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector06-300x276.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you have authenticated to Twitter, you will be able to configure the Teams connector. Enter accounts or tags to see Teams posts for relevant activity \u2013 do not put spaces after the commas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1017\" height=\"684\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector07.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector07.png 1017w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector07-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector07-768x517.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Decide if you want Teams posts for replies, mentions, or re-tweets. Select the frequency with which you want the Teams connector to check for updates \u2013 our Microsoft outage notification connector is set to \u201cDeliver individual messages as new tweets arrive\u201d, but I configure most other connectors to create a digest every 1 or 6 hours. Once you have completed the connector configuration, click \u201cSave\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"689\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector08.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector08.png 1018w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector08-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector08-768x520.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1018px) 100vw, 1018px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In your selected channel, you will find a post summarizing the connector configuration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"227\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector09-1024x227.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector09-1024x227.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector09-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector09-768x171.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Teams-TwitterConnector09.png 1247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft publishes outage notifications several places \u2013there\u2019s a web portal that provides general status for major Office 365 outages,a customer-only portal that provides a LOT of details on every diminished service state, a Twitter feed with status on wide-spread outages. The common feature of all of these, though, is *checking* to see if there\u2019s an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[722,675,666,665],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-365","tag-brand-mention-tracking","tag-did-you-know","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}