In this section, we will use a function to read and process a Twitter feed. Twitter exposes a REST API that, among other things, allows developers to search for tweets that include certain words or expressions. You can register an application with Twitter, and create custom code to call the Twitter Search API. To make things easier, in this book, we will use Azure Logic Apps to streamline the process of integrating with Twitter.
Azure Logic Apps provide a simplified way to implement common workflows without writing custom code. When creating Logic Apps, you can choose from a list of triggers and actions to execute, add conditional statements, and design multi-step workflows. Logic Apps provide hundreds of built-in triggers and actions, and over a hundred connectors to third-party SaaS applications.
Logic Apps offer a powerful way to implement common scenarios, and the integration between Logic Apps and Functions allows to add custom code into the workflow.
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