Twitter Capabilities and Limitations

Updated 

In this article, we will cover the capabilities and limitations of Twitter within the Sprinklr platform.

Twitter General Capabilities and Limitations

Functionality

Sprinklr Supported

Notes

Publish Photos

Yes

Maximum allowed size - 5 MB

You can publish up to 4 photos in a single tweet.

Publish Videos

Yes

Maximum duration - 140 seconds

View the Link Preview of the Videos Post Publishing

Yes


Change Video Thumbnail

Yes


Add Video Caption

Yes


Publish GIF

Yes

Maximum allowed size - 15 MB

Publish Text

Yes

Up to 280 characters allowed 

Schedule Post

Yes


Enable Private Message

Yes


URL

Yes


Long Tweet

No


Schedule and Publish Twitter Threads

Yes


Retweets owned tweet

Yes

Note that this capability is enabled by default for everyone. Having said that, it can be disabled on request.

DP Details: TWITTER_VALIDATE_RETWEET_FOR_OWN_ACCOUNT

Account Types Supported: 

  • Twitter Profile

  • Twitter Ads

Yes


Change account settings, profile image, and color scheme of profile

No

API Limitation

Perform basic searches

Yes


View recent Mentions

Yes


Hide Tweets

No

API Limitation

Hide Replies

Yes

API Limitation

Enable Quote a Tweet function

No


Favorite and Unfavorite Tweets

Yes


Send a new Direct Message, Direct Messages sent to the account, and delete sent Direct Messages

Yes*

*Note that Direct Messages are only deleted from the interface of the sender. Other members of the conversation i.e., the receiver can still view the Direct Messages.

Shorten links to Direct Messages without getting flagged as malware

Yes


Identify the device a Tweet was sent from

No

API Limitation

Pin a Tweet to your Twitter profile page

No

API Limitation

Send and view photos through Direct Messages

Yes


View private account functions such as lists of users who have requested to follow an account

No

API Limitation

Tag users in photos

No

API Limitation

Publish to multiple Twitter accounts

No

API Limitation

Publish Twitter polls

No


Publish Live Video

No


Send a tweet and delete sent tweets

Yes


Apply Geo-Targeted updates

No


Include up to 4 photos in Tweets

Yes


View organic Tweet Favorite, Tweet, and Reach Data

Yes


View Organic Tweet Impressions Data

Yes


Pull in protected tweets if the user has private profile settings

No

API Limitation

Tweet Actions: Reply, Reply all, Retweet, Editable retweet, Direct message, Like, Delete sent Tweets

Yes


Retweet Actions: Reply, Reply all, Retweet, Editable retweet, Direct message, and Like

Yes


Reply Actions: Reply, Reply all, Retweet, Editable retweet, Direct message, Like, and View conversation

Yes


Direct Messages Actions: Reply, Direct message

Yes


Publish a Dark Post

Yes


Report Abusive Behavior

No

API Limitation

Edit/ Delete a Published Post

No


Fleets (Twitter’s disappearing tweets)

No


Unmentioning

No

If the brand has opted to unmention themselves from a thread, then new messages on that particular thread will not come into Sprinklr.


API Limitations for Twitter

Settings

  1. Posting videos to Twitter is supported by the Sprinklr platform and you can also upload images in jpeg, jpg, gif, and png.

  2. Cannot pull in protected tweets if the Twitter User has their profile settings to private.

  3. Cannot track the Favorites of the Client's outbound content.

  4. Cannot view who has unfollowed brand accounts.

Engagement

  1. Audience Profile Information, including user IDs, collection of user IDs the user if following, and user IDs following the user, relationship between brand and user such as following/follower and recent Tweets.

  2. Shorten links in Direct Messages without getting flagged as Malware.

  3. Tag Users in photos.

  4. 180 character limit of Twitter keyword searches per Account.

  5. Limited to 180 search queries on Twitter every 15 minutes.

Character Limits for publishing to Twitter

  1. By default, the user tweet can be 280 characters.

  2. Photo, GIF, and video attachments do not count towards the character limit in a Tweet.

  3. URL utilizes 23 characters of permissible character count, irrespective of the length of the URL.

Twitter API Rate Limits

  1. Direct messages (daily): The limit is 1,000 messages sent per day.

  2. Tweets: 2,400 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as Tweets.

  3. Changes to account email: Four per hour.