I´m always thinking about “cool” ways to use Nintex Workflow. Recently I came up with the idea to combine the ease of Nintex Workflow with the power of SharePoints default functionality to automate my Twitter accounts “following” list. If you are on Twitter and use the platform to light up your business life, you are probably interested in those persons tweeting about your favorite topics, i.e. sharepoint, powershell, office, .net or mobile Usually, you can use Twitters search page to look up users and add them to your follow list or you rely on platforms specialized in finding and adding users for you automatically.

Since Nintex Workflow comes with the ability to produce and handle web requests we can easily create a concept to automate the above mentioned scenario! What we need to do is:

• Create some Nintex workflows
• Schedule a WF to search for hashtags on Twitter (i.e. search 1x every hour)
• Extract Twitter usernames from search result
• Persist found usernames in a SharePoint list
• Schedule a WF to work off the found usernames and add them to my “following” list (i.e. 1x every day)
• Do some default SharePoint work like creating Fields and Views

In the following posts I will explain in detail what you have to do to get this working. There are some Nintex Actions we need to look at especially:

We need these actions to extract the right xml data from the Twitter search response. That´s where I´ll kick off Part 1 of this tutorial.

Markus

Tags: Nintex, SharePoint, Twitter

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