# Twitter

## Usage

This page shows you how to set up the Twitter bridge using Cinny client app (available as an add-on component), so that you can receive and send messages between Twitter and Matrix rooms.

### Invite the bot to a management room

First, please start a chat with `@twitterbot:your-server.com` to create a management room. You can do so by inviting the bot to a room like below.

**Make sure to replace `your-server.com` with your actual “base domain”.** Setting `your-server.com` or `example.com` does not work on your server!

![Invitation dialog to create a management room](https://etke.cc/help/bridges/mautrix-twitter/images/1.webp)

When the bot joins to the created room, it sends confirmation messages to the room as below. If they are visible, bot successfully joined the management room. It works as expected.

![Confirmation message on the room](https://etke.cc/help/bridges/mautrix-twitter/images/2.webp)

### Authentication

To conduct authentication, please follow the steps below.

1. Send `login` to the bridge bot
2. The bot will send you these instructions to extract required cookies. Follow the steps to log into the bridge: ![Instruction for logging in](https://etke.cc/help/bridges/mautrix-twitter/images/3.webp)
3. Log into the [Twitter](https://twitter.com) in private/incognito browser window
4. Press `F12` to open developer tools
5. Select the `Application` (Chrome, Safari, Edge) or `Storage` (Firefox) tab
6. In the sidebar, expand `Cookies` and select `https://twitter.com`
7. In the cookie list, find the `auth_token` value
8. In the cookie list, find the `ct0` value
9. Send `login ct0 auth` to the bot after replacing `ct0` and `auth` with the respective values

After logging in, the bridge will create portal rooms for recent chats. Portal rooms for other chats will be created as you receive messages.

### Useful commands

If you send a message `help` to the room, available commands are output as a message like below:

![The output returned after sending help](https://etke.cc/help/bridges/mautrix-twitter/images/4.webp)

Here is a couple of useful commands:

- `search <query>`: Search for users on the remote network
- `start-chat [login ID] <identifier>`: Start a direct chat with the given user



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