Twitter App Setup

Exposure offers a way to post scores, registrations and other type of alerts straight to your Twitter account.  However, our free option can hit a rate limit where tweets fail to post.  To get around this you can create your own Twitter Developer Account and Twitter App.  This is all free and increases your rate limit for only your Tweets instead of everyone on Exposure.  Follow the steps below to implement your own Twitter app.

1. Login and create your own Twitter Developer account.  The Twitter developer account login should be under the Twitter business account and not a personal Twitter account.  
   
   
2. Once logged in be sure to choose the Basic option and Sign up for Free Account. There are paid options so don't select them unless you want to.
   
   
   
   
3. Accept the Developer agreement & policy.  You can use the following text for the use cases, accept all the terms with the checkboxes, then click Submit.
   
   Will post score results of each game, team or individual registrations for events, along with champions of each division at the end of an event. Score tweets will be in the format of "2012/2013 Boys - Team South def. Team North 10-2". Registration tweets will have the format of "Welcome Team South to the Nationals (2012 Boys) on Jul 8, 2023". Champion tweets will have the format of "Congratulations to Team South! The Nationals 2014/2015 Champions!".
   
   
   
   
4. Twitter by default will create a Project App with a random name.  Click the Gear Icon to edit the Project App.  If you want to rename the entire Project also, and not just the app click the blue link text under the header Project.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Under Settings click the black Edit button.  Rename your app to something appropriate like your company name.  Upload a valid logo.  Enter a description of your choice or use the text below.  Click Save once done.
   
   Will post score results of each game, team or individual registrations for events, along with champions of each division at the end of an event.
   
   
   
   
   
6. Next scoll down to the User authentication settings and click Set up.

   

7. Under App permissions select Read and write and Direct message. Under Type of App select Web App, Automated App or Bot.  Under App info provide your own required Website URL and optional fields if you want. 
   
   The Callback URI / Redirect URL is very important and must link to our site in the following format.  Below you will see we are linking to the lacrosse site.  To verify what site you are on, go back to our site and verify the URL in the web browser.  If it was the basketball site then lacrosse would be replaced with basketball. If this was say rugby then it would be our default url (https://exposureevents.com).  Click Save once done and confirm changes with Yes.
   
   Note: If you have multiple sports, then click the + Add another URI / URL and put another appropriate sport url.
   

   https://lacrosse.exposureevents.com/twitter/linkaccount
   
   

   

8. You don't need to save or use the Client ID or Secret ID provided.  Just click Done and confirm you saved them.

   

9. Next click the Keys and tokens header above and click the Regenerate button under Consumer Keys.  Click Yes, regenerate in confirmation modal.

   

10. Copy both the API Key and API Key Secret into Exposure's event or global settings, notifications Twitter section.  Be sure to click Save in Exposure afterwards.  You can also copy these values for later use on your computer.  You can click Yes, I saved them in Twitter after updating the values in Exposure.    If you ever need to regenerate these then do the process again.

    
    
    Exposure Event Settings
    
    
    
    

11. After clicking Save on the Event Settings page in Exposure you can now click the Continue with Twitter button to link up your Twitter app to send Tweets.  To know if it worked you will see your logo on the top right with your app name.  Click Authorize app button and your Twitter app is linked up to Exposure.