# Canvas escort and markdown **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [March 3, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-escort-and-markdown/122380 "2018-03-03T16:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jettro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jettro/32/3418_2.png) [@jettro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jettro)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-escort-and-markdown/122380/1 "2018-03-03T16:35:35Z")
Hi, I am playing around with Canvas to create a twitter wall. What I would like is to show the amount of tweets. Easy to obtain the number from the escount, however, not so easy to show it in markdown. Guess it has to do something with the datatype markdown requires as input. Anyway around this? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![jettro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jettro/32/3418_2.png) [@jettro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jettro)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-escort-and-markdown/122380/2 "2018-03-03T16:58:40Z")
I guess this is the best way I could find so far: `escount index="twitter"| as num_tweets | markdown "{{rows.0.num_tweets}}"` ---
**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-escort-and-markdown/122380/3 "2018-03-07T17:25:05Z")
cc @Joe_Fleming may be provide more inputs here on Canvas ? Thanks Rashmi ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-escort-and-markdown/122380/4 "2018-04-04T17:25:20Z")
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