Automating Twitter Posts with Power Automate

Twitter is a widely used platform for sharing updates, engaging with followers, and promoting content in real-time. Businesses, content creators, and marketers often rely on Twitter to keep their audience informed. However, manually posting tweets can be time-consuming, and inconsistent posting can reduce engagement.

Power Automate, a workflow automation tool from Microsoft, allows users to automate repetitive tasks, including scheduling and posting tweets. By integrating Power Automate with Twitter, you can automate social media posting based on a schedule, new content from a blog, or other triggers such as form submissions and RSS feeds.

This guide will walk you through setting up Power Automate to automate Twitter posts, providing practical use cases for different scenarios.

Step 1: Set Up Power Automate and Twitter

1.1 Access Power Automate

To get started with automation:

Open Power Automate.
Sign in using your Microsoft account.
Click on Create to begin setting up a new automation flow.

1.2 Connect Power Automate to Twitter

Power Automate provides a Twitter connector, enabling users to interact with their Twitter accounts. To establish a connection:

Click on Connectors in the Power Automate interface.
Search for Twitter.
Select Twitter and click Sign in.
Authorize Power Automate to access your Twitter account by logging in and granting necessary permissions.

This step is essential to allow Power Automate to post tweets on your behalf.

Step 2: Create an Automated Flow to Post Tweets

2.1 Choose a Trigger

Power Automate relies on triggers to determine when a flow should run. Depending on your needs, you can choose different triggers:

Recurrence Trigger: Schedule tweets at specific intervals (daily, weekly, or hourly).
RSS Feed Trigger: Automatically post new blog articles as tweets.
Form Submission Trigger: Tweet responses from surveys or feedback forms.
New File in OneDrive or SharePoint: Tweet when a new document (such as a press release) is uploaded.

For example, if you want to schedule tweets daily:

Click Create and choose Automated cloud flow.
Name your flow (e.g., “Daily Twitter Post”).
Select Recurrence as the trigger.
Set the frequency (e.g., every day at 9 AM).

Step 3: Add the Twitter Action to Post Tweets

3.1 Configure the “Post a Tweet” Action

Click + New step.
Search for Twitter in the action list.
Select Post a Tweet from the available Twitter actions.
In the Tweet text field, enter your message. You can use static text or dynamic content if pulling data from another source.

Example tweet:

Good morning!  Stay productive and make the most of your day. #Motivation #Productivity

If you are integrating with an RSS feed, use dynamic fields like {Feed title} and {Feed URL} to automatically insert the latest blog post title and URL.

Example for RSS-based tweets:

 New blog post: {Feed title}! Check it out here: {Feed URL} #LatestNews

Click Save and Test the flow to ensure tweets are posted correctly.

Step 4: Automating Twitter Posts for Different Use Cases

Scenario 1: Schedule Daily Tweets (Recurrence Trigger)

If you want to post daily motivational quotes, news updates, or promotional tweets, follow these steps:

Use the Recurrence trigger and set it to run daily.
Add the Post a Tweet action.
Enter multiple tweet templates using conditions or random selection logic.
Save and test your flow to ensure tweets are posted at the right time.

Scenario 2: Automatically Tweet New Blog Posts (RSS Feed Trigger)

To keep your audience updated on new content:

Select When a feed item is published as the trigger.
Add the Post a Tweet action.
Format the tweet to include the latest blog post title and URL.

Example tweet format:

 Just published: {Feed title}  
Read more: {Feed URL} #TechNews #Blog

Scenario 3: Tweet Customer Feedback (Microsoft Forms Trigger)

If your company collects customer feedback via Microsoft Forms, you can automatically share positive reviews on Twitter:

Select When a new response is submitted (Microsoft Forms trigger).
Use the Get response details action to retrieve form data.
Add the Post a Tweet action and format the tweet with customer feedback.

Example:

 Another happy customer!  
"{Customer Feedback}" – {Customer Name}  
#CustomerSuccess #HappyClients

Scenario 4: Tweet When a New File is Added to SharePoint

If your team publishes press releases, reports, or newsletters as PDFs in SharePoint, you can tweet whenever a new document is uploaded:

Use When a file is created in a folder (SharePoint trigger).
Extract file name and URL.
Post a tweet with the file link.