# Twitter Connector

The Twitter Connector is an IDOL connector that retrieves tweets from Twitter.

The Twitter Connector can retrieve tweets in several ways:

- Twitter Streaming API

  Through the Streaming API you can retrieve tweets as they are created. You can retrieve a filtered stream of tweets that match specific languages and also match a specific user, location, or keyword. Alternatively, you can retrieve a random sample of tweets.

  The Twitter Streaming API provides a live stream of data. This means that the connector can only retrieve tweets that are created when the `synchronize` action is running. Tweets created at other times are not retrieved. In this mode, the `synchronize` action does not stop unless you set the `TaskMaxDuration` configuration parameter, run the `StopFetch` action, or stop the connector.

- Twitter REST API: Search

  The connector retrieves a sample of recent tweets (from approximately the last seven days) that match a query. Older tweets cannot be retrieved because of limitations imposed by the Twitter API. In this mode, the `synchronize` action finishes when all of the requested tweets have been ingested.

- Twitter REST API: User Timeline

  The connector ingests tweets made by a specific user. In this mode, the `synchronize` action finishes when all of the requested tweets have been ingested.

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