Creating A Twitter Application Documentation by WPWeb

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To create a Twitter App, go and visit: https://developer.twitter.com/. You need to login to the developer site, using your Twitter account.

Note: Now, you have to apply for twitter developer account. Once your developer account get approved you will be able to create new Twiter app. Also, if you are using Social Auto Poster plugin, your APP must have Elevated access

On the “Create an application” page, fill out all the information Twitter is asking for, just as shown in the image below:

Note: When you enter the URL of your website in to the Website field, make sure that it does match the URL of your website 100%. This means, if you go to your website and then check the URL in the browser and the URL does look like http://www.domain.com then you need to enter the exact same URL. If your website URL is http://domain.com then you need to enter it that way, without using the www at the front of the name.

Use the same URL for the “Callback URL” field. If these entries do not completely match the URL of your website, the application won’t work and it will show an error message when you try to connect to the App.

After you successfully created the Twitter application you’ll be redirected to its “Details” Tab. click on the “Permissions” tab. In this tab you will find a “Access” option. please choose “Read and Write” from the list, scroll down and click on the “Update Settings” button to save your changes. See image below:

Note: If you don’t choose “Read and Write” option from “Application Type” section, the application won’t work.

Important: After you saved your changes, go back to the “Permissions” tab check, if the changes have been saved and the Radio button is check on “Read and Write”. Sometimes it happens, that this doesn’t get saved on the first time and you need to make and save the changes a second and sometime even a third time. This setting is important, otherwise the plugin won’t be able to post to your Twitter Account.

Note: Request email address from users option should be enabled for Social Login plugin if you want to get user email address from the Twitter. You will only able to tick this setting if you have entered Terms of Service URL and Privacy policy URL

After you make sure, that the settings have been saved, go to the application’s API keys page by clicking on the “Keys and Tokens” tab.

Now, click on the “Create” button.

This will create the access tokens for your Twitter app. After it has been created you should see them above the button, as shown in the image below:

Make sure, that the Access level is “Read and write”. Copy and paste the Access token and the Access token secret in to the plugin settings page, within the Twitter Settings box. Do also copy and paste the Twitter API key and Twitter Secret key in to the settings page which can be found on top in the “API keys” tab. See image above:

Important: When you copy and paste all the needed IDs and Keys, make sure, that you don’t have any empty spaces, either at the beginning nor at the end of these entries. If you have any empty spaces, then the Application won’t work and will show an error message when you try to connect to the App.

To create a Twitter App, go and visit: https://developer.twitter.com/. You need to login to the developer site, using your Twitter account.

On the “Create an application” page, fill out all the information Twitter is asking for in the steps, just as shown in the images below:

This will create the API key and secret for your Twitter app. Copy and paste the API key amd secret in to the plugin settings page, within the Twitter Settings box.

Go to the API permissions and make sure, that the Access level is “Read and write”. See image below:

Note: If you don’t choose “Read and Write” option from “Application Permissions” section, the application won’t work.

Go to the Authentication setting and fill all the information in a form. See image below:

Note: Enable 3rd party authentication option should be enabled for Social Login plugin and Social auto Poster plugin.

To create a Twitter App, go and visit: https://developer.twitter.com/. You need to login to the developer site, using your Twitter account.

On the “Create an application” page, fill out all the information Twitter is asking for, just as shown in the image below:

Note: If you don’t choose “Read and Write” option from “Application Type” section, the application won’t work.

After you make sure, that the settings have been saved, go to the application’s API keys page by clicking on the “Keys and Tokens” tab.

Now, click on the “Create” button.

This will create the access tokens for your Twitter app. After it has been created you should see them above the button, as shown in the image below:

To create a Twitter App, go and visit: https://developer.twitter.com/. You need to login to the developer site, using your Twitter account.

On the “Create an application” page, fill out all the information Twitter is asking for in the steps, just as shown in the images below:

This will create the API key and secret for your Twitter app. Copy and paste the API key amd secret in to the plugin settings page, within the Twitter Settings box.

Once, you have configured the app on your project. Do go to the User authentication Settings and select edit to manage permissions.

From this screen you will be able to choose the permissions over your app.

While using the application with Social Login you will also be required to configure Oauth 2.0 for Social Auto Poster login is not required with API configuration so Oauth 1.0 will be sufficient.

Enable Oauth 1.0 & Oauth 2.0 as your requirement.
Select Permission to Read & Write.

Fill in the form of Callback / Redirect URL with relevant domain information. And save the form.

Once saved go to > Keys & Tokens Menu

Regenerate required tokens and update the same to API configuration for plugin.

For Using Social Auto Poster you are required to have you app with elevated access you can confirm the Elevated Access from above screenshot. with that if you have only Essential Access over app you will need to apply for Elevated Access.

Creating a Twitter Application