Scrape Twitter for Mentions of Company
This workflow can automatically monitor mentions of specified companies on Twitter, fetching the latest tweets every 10 minutes and filtering relevant information. It instantly pushes the retrieved tweet content and links to a designated Slack channel, helping businesses effectively keep track of brand dynamics, avoid public opinion blind spots, and enhance brand public relations and market response efficiency. It is suitable for marketing, brand public relations, and customer service teams.
Workflow Name
Scrape Twitter for Mentions of Company
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow automatically scrapes recent tweets mentioning a specified company on Twitter, enabling real-time brand monitoring. It runs every 10 minutes, filters the latest tweet content along with corresponding links, and pushes the relevant information to a designated Slack channel, facilitating immediate brand sentiment response.
Core Problems Addressed
Helps enterprises promptly capture the latest mentions of their brand on Twitter, eliminating blind spots in public opinion monitoring. It enables rapid response to customer feedback or market developments, thereby enhancing brand public relations efficiency and market sensitivity.
Use Cases
Ideal for marketing teams, brand PR departments, and customer service teams—especially organizations aiming to track social media dynamics in real time and quickly capture user feedback and trending public opinions.
Main Workflow Steps
- Scheduled Trigger (Run Every 10 Minutes): Automatically initiates the workflow every 10 minutes.
- Setup: Defines the Twitter keywords to monitor and the Slack channel for notifications.
- Time Calculation (Now - 10 minutes): Calculates the timestamp from 10 minutes ago to filter new tweets.
- Fetch Tweets (Get last 50 mentions): Calls the Twitter API to retrieve the most recent 50 tweets containing the specified keywords.
- Time Filtering (Created since last run?): Determines whether tweets are new within the last 10 minutes.
- Data Filtering (Filter Tweet Data): Extracts tweet text and links, organizing the information succinctly.
- Push Notification (Post to Slack): Sends the new tweet information to the preset Slack channel for immediate team visibility.
Systems and Services Involved
- Twitter API: Used to retrieve tweet data containing specified keywords.
- Slack: Serves as the messaging channel for instant team notifications.
- n8n Scheduled Trigger (Cron) Node: Enables periodic automatic execution.
Target Users and Value
- Marketing professionals and brand managers can monitor brand exposure and user feedback on Twitter in real time.
- PR teams can quickly identify potential crises or opportunities and respond promptly.
- Customer service departments can enhance service quality and user satisfaction by timely capturing user voices.
- Any enterprise or team seeking to automate social media monitoring and improve information response efficiency.