Creating your first flow
The best way to see Power Automate in action is to start creating a flow. In this example, we're going to create a flow that monitors X (formerly Twitter) for a certain hashtag and then posts a notification to a Teams channel. Such a flow might be useful if you're trying to gauge or capture customer sentiment for a product or service, track trending public health topics related to certain keywords, monitor engagement activity, or other topic-based alerts on a social media platform.
Understanding the flow components
This particular flow is going to rely upon a few components:
- An API key and secret for X (similar to a username and password)
- A trigger that monitors Twitter for certain words or phrases
- An identity for Microsoft 365 (username and password)
- A Microsoft Teams team
- An action that posts to Microsoft Teams
To complete this flow...
