Twitter Gadget

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Revel Digital provides a few different options for getting your Twitter feeds integrated seamlessly with your other signage content. Adding Twitter to a marquee playlist will include recent tweets in your scrolling marquees. We also provide a couple of different Gadgets for a scrolling list of tweets and for displaying Twitter photos.

Linking your Twitter account to Revel Digital

Login to your Revel Digital account and go to the profile icon.  > Account Information > Integrations. Click the Connect to Twitter button. This will prompt you to login to your Twitter account and then return you to the account page.

Tweets in a Scrolling Marquee

Adding Twitter to a scrolling marquee is similar to adding any other content. You'll just need to know the Twitter screen name and we'll do the rest.

Using a Twitter gadget in a template

To add the Twitter gadget to your template just add a Gadget zone then select one of the Twitter gadgets from the list.

Configure the Twitter Gadget

With the gadget selected, you will have a number of options to choose from. The only required option is the Search Query field. This determines which tweets you want displayed. Twitter has a number of search operators. Some of the more common include:

A complete list of search operators is available here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/guides/standard-operators

For our demo we are searching for all Tweets from DSExpo by entering from:DSExpo in the search query field:

Now just click the template preview button to verify everything is configured properly.