How I Replaced Buffer to Post in Twitter (With n8n)

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Twitter. The Popular Microblogging & Social Networking Platform which has more active users. No matter what niche you’re into. There is always discussion going on Twitter.

But. I want to make use of it. And for weird reason I hate using Buffer.

Why limit our-self to some third party tool if we have God sent n8n?

Here is my use case:

I want to constantly share the articles with our users in Twitter. At the same time not with Buffer. Because buffer has limitation (It’s just a Scheduler)

So I built my own with n8n.

Nodes Used:

  • Cron (for Trigger)
  • Google Sheets (For Storing our Post Title, Link, Hashtag)
  • Function Node (with some code. To Pick Random Single Row from Google Sheet. YOU CAN COPY PASTE THE CODE)
  • Twitter Node (To Post a Tweet)

Here is how it looks like.

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Short and Sweet Right?

And Have a look inside Google Sheets.

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Here is how it works.

  • Cron Node will trigger at a time.
  • Google Node fetches all the row from Sheet
  • Function Node pick one row
  • Tweet Node post it

Easy right?

Bonus: In n8n you can change the timezone of your Workflow. You can pick the time according to your niche or business.

That’s it.

🎁 Workflow Code

Important:

  • You need Twitter API: http://developers.twitter.com/
  • Play safe with Twitter API
  • Make sure you have atleast 50-80 Rows in Google Sheets with Different Text and Hashtag

Please comment your Thoughts. (Helps to motivate me :heart:)

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Thanks, @mcnaveen for making this. I’ve been planning to do something similar to this for a while now. I will try it out and share my feedback soon :slightly_smiling_face:

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Sure @harshil1712 bro :heart: n8n is fun.

Edit: Finally verified my n8n account. I’ll share more workflows soon.

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I use the same to publish on LinkedIn, Facebook, … :slight_smile:

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Very cool @mcnaveen ! This post made me think of Retool. We had an internal hackathon at n8n in December and I finally got to try it out with n8n. It’s is an awesome no-code tool for making frontend UIs for internal apps. We hacked a dashboard together in one day without any prior Retool experience (and consumed n8n workflows as a Restful API endpoint via the Webhook trigger node).

If at any point you want to make a lightweight front-end UI for this workflow, I recommend checking it out :slight_smile:

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That’s Great @maxT n8n is really a game changer :heart:

Happy to be a Part of n8n user family :tada:

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I love Retool, but that pricing kills a small business/startup. Would be great to see a Hackathon with UI Bakery and n8n, that would be a perfect marriage.

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@Jorge_M have been meaning to check out UI Bakery (basically if it’s a no/lowcode FE tool then I wanna try it :grin:).

I am curious however, a quick glance at the pricing makes it seem very similar to Retool. Retool is essentially $10/mo vs. UI Bakery’s $7. Is that the pain point or are there useful features that UI Bakery provides at that price-point?

So far have only used Retool free plan as the latest dashboard I built is for ±2-3 team members to use.

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Hey @maxT,
Retool out of the box has more features (But I know UI Bakery is making effort to add more stuff)
If I read the pricing correctly, the RETOOL at 10$, every user can still edit the app which removes the usage purpose as a frontend webapp. With UI Bakery 7$, I don’t think users can edit the APP. I will confirm with them anyway, as I am testing it currently.

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how? The api is unavailable to the public…

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Hey @Alex_Yates,

Welcome to the Community :cake:

It could be that 2 years ago when the post was created the API was available.

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thank you jon, I somehow stupidly missed the date it was posted, apologies about that.

Are you aware of any other integrations that allow for posting and other interactions with LinkedIn?

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Twitter added a free API at some point: Getting Started with the Twitter API | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform

It’s basically write only though

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Posting is still possible, but a bit more work, and there’s a limit to the number of messages you can share.

Here’s a good tutorial that explains all the steps. It’s in French, but the auto translate does a good job - it helped me through the process.

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Thank you @bartv and if you have any questions, I’m available :slight_smile:

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