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> The Twitter Firehose source connector receives tweets from Twitter Firehose and writes the tweets to Pulsar topics.

# Twitter firehose source

The Twitter Firehose source connector receives tweets from Twitter Firehose and writes the tweets to Pulsar topics.

# Configuration

The configuration of the Twitter Firehose source connector has the following properties.

## Property

| Name                  | Type    | Required | Sensitive | Default                      | Description                                                                                                                                                                        |
| --------------------- | ------- | -------- | --------- | ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `consumerKey`         | String  | true     | true      | " " (empty string)           | The twitter OAuth consumer key.<br /><br />For more information, see [Access tokens](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/guides/access-tokens).            |
| `consumerSecret`      | String  | true     | true      | " " (empty string)           | The twitter OAuth consumer secret.                                                                                                                                                 |
| `token`               | String  | true     | true      | " " (empty string)           | The twitter OAuth token.                                                                                                                                                           |
| `tokenSecret`         | String  | true     | true      | " " (empty string)           | The twitter OAuth secret.                                                                                                                                                          |
| `guestimateTweetTime` | Boolean | false    | false     | false                        | Most firehose events have null createdAt time.<br /><br />If `guestimateTweetTime` set to true, the connector estimates the createdTime of each firehose event to be current time. |
| `clientName`          | String  | false    | false     | openconnector-twitter-source | The twitter firehose client name.                                                                                                                                                  |
| `clientHosts`         | String  | false    | false     | Constants.STREAM\_HOST       | The twitter firehose hosts to which client connects.                                                                                                                               |
| `clientBufferSize`    | int     | false    | false     | 50000                        | The buffer size for buffering tweets fetched from twitter firehose.                                                                                                                |

> For more information about OAuth credentials, see [Twitter developers portal](https://developer.twitter.com/en.html).