Microsoft Flow

Microsoft Flow is a cloud-based service. It allows us to react to an event in one service and do something with the data from that event into another service. The users can build workflows that automatically do some business tasks and processes across applications and services.

It helps us to monitor all our workflow with the help of a great cloud solution called “Microsoft Flow”. Before reading this article, please go through some important articles mentioned below.

Connect Twitter and Text Analytics

We can track Twitter wall messages and notify me about Positive Posts automatically using Microsoft Translator.

Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Login here

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure (formerly Windows Azure) is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service and infrastructure as a service and supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems. Login Here.

How to create a Microsoft Flow for connecting Twitter and Text Analytics Azure Service



Here, we will connect Twitter and Text Analytics Azure Service.

Prerequisites

  • Microsoft Account – Corporate ID.
  • Twitter Account.
  • Azure Account

Follow the below steps to build a Flow using a template.

Step 1

Login to www.flow.microsoft.com.

Here is the dashboard.

Step 2

Choose the Templates menu from the menu bar.

Search "Twitter Positive" in the search bar and choose "Notify me about positive Twitter Posts" template.

Now, click on the "Use this template" button.

Step 3

Sign in to Free Azure Account.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/try/cognitive-services/

Choose "Text Analytics API" from Language Service and click on "Get API Key".

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Choose the Region and agree to the terms and conditions.

Get your Text API Key and website link.

Paste Account Key and Site URL in Microsoft Flow Website and click on the "Create" button.

Now, Text Analytics get signed in.

Step 4

Sign into Notifications.

Step 5

Sign into Microsoft Translator.

Step 6

Sign into Twitter account.

Step 7

After all of these get configured, click on the "Continue" button.

Step 6

Next, let us configure Twitter and Text Analytics.

  • Track the tweet from your Twitter wall (Eg. #Sunday)
  • Detect Sentiment in that Tweet
  • Compare Sentiment. If its greater than 0.7, it’s a Positive Tweet

If yes, Choose the Translate Text and Send push notification Settings

Final Flow should be like this and click on Save Flow

The Flow is created.

Output

Receive Notification to Microsoft Flow Mobile App.

Positive Tweet.

The history of the flow.

Summary

I hope you understood how to Notify me about Positive Twitter posts automatically and how to run that. Stay tuned for more Flow articles.