Mautic - Twitter plugin

This plugin can:

• display the tweets for a contact with valid Twitter handle,
• load additional information from the Twitter profile,
• place a share button to the landing pages.

Requirements

• Mautic installed on a publicly accessible URL. This plugin won't work on a localhost because callbacks from Twitter to Mautic are necessary.

Authorize the plugin

A Twitter application has to be created for authorization. To create/manage one, go to apps.twitter.com. While creating your Twitter app, you'll have to insert a Callback URL. This callback URL is written in the Twitter plugin configuration.

When your Twitter app is created, copy the API Key to the Client Key field in Mautic's Twitter configuration and API Secret to Client Secret field. Click the Authorize button.

Don't forget to switch Published to Yes and save the configuration.

Configure the plugin

If your Twitter plugin is authorized correctly, you can configure the Features and Contact Field Mapping tab in the plugin configuration. The Features tab is self-explanatory. The fields like Tweet text, Via, Recommended and Hashtag are prepared there for future implementation with Twitter. Read here how to configure the Contact Field Mapping. If you don't have a special field for Twitter handle yet, create it in the Contact Field section.

The tweets of a contact should appear on the contact's profile as soon as the Twitter handle contact field is filled with an existing Twitter handle.

Use {sharebuttons} token in the Mautic Landing Pages in the place where you want to display the share buttons.

Twitter API limitations

The original idea was that Mautic will search for additional information about a contact in various social platforms. But since the time the social plugins were written, social platforms restricted the API search to only the username.