anyone knows if it is possible to do registration via twitter just like facebook register (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/registration/)?
it is not login via twitter. i need to store some basic information from the twitter user, eg, name and email, and then request user to choose their own username and password for my site.
Thanks!
Twitter doesn't have this functionality at all , they have #anywhere for integration for some Twitter features on your website. That's the closest there is to this. What you can do is register an account with the information you gather from an authenticating user, but the development of this would be up to you. There are no boxed up solutions right now from Twitter. There may be something third party but I'm not aware of any.
It's also "against the rules"
You may not use Twitter Content or other data collected from end users
of your Client to create or maintain a separate status update or
social network database or service.
https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms
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I'm currently building an application that uses sign in with Twitter. However, some users report losing their Twitter account (or also possibly getting banned from Twitter, etc), and am wondering if it's possible to switch those accounts to Google signin or email signin. Have not found docs on this, especially if the linked identifier is a Twitter handle instead of an email. Any help will be appreciated!
check here --> https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/web/account-linking
But I think that the user must be logged in to do so, as you comment if they do not have how to enter with Twitter what you could do is a validation of additional data you have of the user (indicate their name, twitter user, something that you know about him) in a section that you build within the platform where new users can request to claim an account.
According to this question: Architecture for merging multiple accounts and registering a user account
Various answers have said that using email is a good way of establishing correspondence between different accounts and then doing automatic merging for multiple account sign in.
However, twitter is a major provider that does not provide email through their oauth API.
How can we reliably and automatically establish a correspondence between a twitter account and for example Google, Facebook, Github... etc accounts? So that we can auto-merge those accounts.
I'm writing a library to help in this, so it's not really useful to say do it manually, since I would like to provide options.
There is no secure-way to automatically do it, I implemented an application with local account/Twitter.Facebook/Google and I didn't have other choice.
I suggest you to allow your users to register with one method (local account, Twitter, Facebook, Google...) and create a page in "My account" that allow them to associate other accounts.
In Twitter a user can be identified by either a name or a key, you have no way to know them unless you explicitly ask them to the user.
Moreover now in Twitter 1.1 you have to redirect your user to Twitter to approve your application and then you get the OAuth token and security key. As you can see there must be an interaction with Twitter, at least if you need to perform some restricted queries on his behalf (e.g. create a Tweet).
I am using Twitter as an OAuth provider for ASP.NET MVC 4 web site. I would like to be able to follow up with a registered user at a later date, either by email or via a tweet. Outside of having the user follow me on Twitter, do I have any other options to communicate with the user?
Here is what I unsuccessfully considered:
It appears that there is no way to get access to the email address since Twitter OAuth API does not return it.
It appears I cannot send a direct message unless a user
follows me on Twitter.
"Read/Write/DirectMessage" permissions seem
too intrusive -- all I want to do is send a user a message that a
new product is released -- I don't need any of the write
capabilities that this level of permissions provides.
To recap, if a user used Twitter to sign in to my website, what are my options to contact that user at a later date?
Thanks.
Twitter's solution for this sort of person-to-person communication is the Direct Message, however, Twitter has (rightfully) decided that both parties need to consent to this channel being available. This decision is intended to reduce the amount of spam in the Twitter ecosystem.
Posting public tweets that mention the username will get your users' attention, but it is also broadcasting their relationship with your company to the entire Twitter ecosystem. You will, essentially, be advertising their relationship with your company without their permission. This approach will bring you headaches sooner or later.
Email is probably a better choice for the sort of announcement to existing customers.
I have an existing rails app which uses 'devise' for authentication.
I would like user's to be able to link their twitter and facebook accounts to their account on my site, so that my application can post updates on their behalf.
Ideally:
When registering, you can choose to set up a standard account, or use twitter, Facebook, etc credentials.
If user chooses to use facebook credentials, I would still like them to be able to link their twitter account, so that my application can post to both at same time on their behalf.
A bonus would be allowing them to have identities which they could link twitter account A to one identity, then switch identities and use another twitter acccount.
My questions are:
if they use a standard account, and link facebook and twitter, are they going to be prompted to enter those credentials every time I post on their behalf? Or does omniauth give me an infinitely valid token?
I know devise can handle omniauth, but I can't seem to tell if it can handle what I am asking. It seems that it's omniauth support is more along the lines of just authenticating site users against twitter credentials not for linking multiples.
is there a rails gem that does this, and is well supported? I see socialite is no longer supported, but it seemed to be a one or the other type deal, not what I want anyway.
because I am already doing standard auth with devise, would it be simpler to just force users to create a standard account, and then use the twitter and facebook api's directly on top of that?
Looking for the best strategy here for doing what I want.
*note: If you think I can get 75% of what I want for 25% of the effort that all my goals would be, let me know. *
Thanks,
~S
I want to create an web application that will link up a student's facebook, twitter and orkut accounts all under one shed. Its like connecting all the students within a college, to login into the web app, the userid will be the unique studentID provided by the college
itself.
Now, once a student has logged-in, he can open his facebook, twitter and orkut a/c in the same window, lets say under tabs. How can i do that??
I mean how can i pass a student's Facebook's user-id and password to facebook server and if user authentication is done, then show the student his facebook wall.
I am very confused and don't know how to deal with this.
Storing username and passwords is not a very good idea. Neither Facebook nor twitter supports it through API.
For Facebook integration use the OpenGraph protocol with any SDK that Facebook provides, like Javascript SDK. Mogli is a ruby wrapper for OpenGraph API
For Twitter, there are multiple options like John Nunemaker's Twitter gem. Use that to talk to Twitter API.
Ultimately, it comes down to the architecture of your application. You can start by creating models like 'FacebookConnection' or 'TwitterConnection' and linking them to your 'User' model.
Solving it easy, just make the link open twitter/facebook. if they are signed in there already, their homepage will show, otherwise they will be prompted to enter user/pass.
To integrate your application with those platform, each platform got it's API and connect method, with this you won't need the user password be stored in your app. You instead will, twitter as an example, create a twitter application that communicate with twitter's API, and then redirect the user to twitter asking twitter to grant your application some access to the signed in user account, almost the same as you will sign in with your google account here on stackoverflow.
To do the communication with each of those platform, refer to the API/Connect documentation they provide and implement it in your web application. Don't reinvent the wheel, most of the communication functionality will be already coded in an easy to use library, whether for rubyonrails or most other development frameworks/languages.
look at facebook connect, oath (for twitter) etc instead of storing passwords
divs/iframes with some kind of tab control (jQuery?) to handle toggling of what should be visible.