Authentication and Authorization

OAuth 1.0 is used for authentication and authorization. Before using the plug-in, you must obtain the authentication parameters to authorize Twitter applications.

 

The OAuth authentication is a common authentication mechanism for REST service providers. The authentication protocol issues authentication parameters to authorize Twitter applications. See Creating an OAuth 1.0 Shared Resource for more details about how to create an OAuth 1.0 shared resource.

Note: Before creating the OAuth 1.0 shared resource, ensure that you have obtained access tokens issued by Twitter. See https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/overview/application-owner-access-tokens for more details regarding generating access tokens.

Besides, the plug-in requires Read, Write, and Access direct messages permissions, you also must update the permission accordingly.

An example is provided in the Creating a Twitter Application and Generating an Access Token section to show how to create access tokens and change permissions.