To allow Socital to connect to Twitter on your behalf, to extract User Data, authenticate users and offer its other services to you, you need to connect to your Socital Account the Twitter app which you are using for Twitter Login.

 

Step 1: Get your Twitter App ID and App Secret

 

1. Go to Twitter Applications Management.

2. Login to your Twitter account.

3. Select the App that you have created for Twitter Login.

 

Select Twitter App

 

4. Go to the “Settings” tab. Scroll down and add https://plugin.socital.com/api/v1/auth/callback in the “Callback URL” field.

 

twitter callback url

 

5. Go to the “Keys and Access Tokens” tab. There you can see the App Secret and the App ID.

6. Click the “Create an Access Token” button to generate your Twitter App’s Access Token

 

Twitter App Secret and ID

 

Step 2: Add your Twitter App ID and App Secret to your Socital Account

 

6. Login to your Socital Dashboard.

7. Open the drop-down menu in the top right corner and choose “Account Settings”.

 

Socital dashboard

Open Account Settings

 

8. From the left-hand menu open the “Connect Social Apps” tab.

 

connect social apps

 

9. Click on “Connect a Twitter Application”.

 

Connect a Twitter App

 

10. In the pop-up enter your Twitter Consumer Key in the “Application Key” field, your Twitter Consumer Secret in the “Application Secret” field, the Access Token in the “Twitter Access Token” field and the Access Token Secret to the “Twitter Access Secret” and click on “Connect”.

 

Connect your Twitter App

 

11. You should see a Success message in the popup.

 

Twitter Success Message

 

12. You can now see the connected Twitter App in the list of your Connected Social Media apps.

 

Connected Twitter App


 

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