I want to post a X/Twitter post using the X (formerly Twitter) Create a Post. I’d like to mention a person from the post, however, I have no idea how to do it. I tried writing their name in plain text, writing “@” before their name, but nothing seems to make the name clickable.
Same problem using the LinkedIn Create a Text Post integration.
Does anyone know how to do it?
Hi @Yann1,
Welcome to the Make community!
Did you read the X/Twitter API documentation? Does it say something about mentions?
Cheers,
Henk
Digging into the Twitter API documentation, I see that the problem I’m having with Twitter mentions disappearing may be related to the way the Twitter API interprets special characters like @ in my content.
I checked that I had the right OAuth permissions, and that I was read and write in the API configuration.
It seems that some systems, such as Make.com or Twitter APIs, may suppress special characters for security reasons. To avoid this, I tried to manually escape the @ symbol by adding a backslash, but got the error message [403] Forbidden: You are not permitted to perform this action.
I confess I’m not an API specialist and I’m struggling a bit to understand the documentation provided by Twitter…
Okay so escaping the @-character doesn’t help either. Although I doubt that Make will suppress an @ for security reasons. There must be a way, right? Was this question posted on this community maybe?
I cannot access the X API docs right now, because my Freedom app prohibits me… I can take a look this evening though!
Cheers,
Henk
Thank you in advance for your help!
Looking at what’s happening in the twitter module, the @ disappears between the INPUT (where it appears in the text content) and the OUTPUT (where it disappears from the text content).