Does Twitter support OAuth 2.0?

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I want to integrate Twitter with my Android application. Can I do this using OAuth 2.0?

I have searched the internet but couldn't find any good explanation regarding this. If anyone has done this before, can you please guide me through this. I saw in a old post here that Twitter doesn't support OAuth 2.0.

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 07 '21 at 08:14

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Basically, no, Twitter still uses OAuth 1.0a for most parts of their backend. Since march however, they support the OAuth 2 client credentials flow for application-only authentication.

This means, if you:

have an application that only shows tweets from other users or stuff like that, you can get authorized using OAuth 2.
want any users to use your app to post tweets or do anything else on a user's behalf, you have to struggle with OAuth 1.0a.

You should check out the Twitter4J library, which abstracts most of the OAuth 1 hassle away from you.

edited Oct 07 '21 at 08:14

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answered May 27 '13 at 21:57

Jan Gerlinger

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Thanks for your answer Jan.In my application I want to retrieve the oauth token and oauth secret from twitter and pass it to a REST protocol to achieve my work.Is it possible ? – Spring Breaker May 28 '13 at 05:24
Yes, this should be possible. – Jan Gerlinger May 28 '13 at 09:21
I am glad to know that its possible.Could you pleas guide me with some relevant link how to do it? – Spring Breaker May 28 '13 at 09:34

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 05 '19 at 03:58

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This might be of interest:

"... we're releasing our application-only authentication scheme, based on the OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow."

Posted to dev.twitter 2013-03-11 https://dev.twitter.com/blog/application-only-authentication (current: https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/a/2013/application-only-authentication.html)

edited Jul 05 '19 at 03:58

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answered Sep 27 '13 at 00:29

Bernard ''ben'' Tremblay

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Does Twitter support OAuth 2.0?

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