How-To stream social media notifications to your Slack with Azure Cloud Logic Apps

We live in turbulent times. We need information, the right information.

Information is Important.
Then Context is important.
And Timing is important.

You see, I run a small Slack group, intended to be for Financially Savvy Investor “want-to-be” (all one word)

And therein our group, we discuss news, opportunities, and strategies. It’s a hobby — But not financial advice :D

The challenge is to ensure that we, as a group are up-to-date with the relevant social and economic developments, — something we discuss at length in more relevant channels. We have #Crypto #Stocks #Buy-To-Lets #Economy channels to name a few.

There are a number of Slack integrations available(paid), but my purpose was to get more bespoke Twitter updates into the relevant #updates or #news channel on slack, without much coding, faff, and on a shoestring budget. As it make it smart, pay only for the resource it needs to run on.
So I did. It works out to cost about $0.40/month for all my streaming needs. But let's talk details.

This is how I have gone about creating my customer twitter-to-slack feed, and this is where Azure Cloud comes…