Implementing Twitter authentication

As we implemented Facebook authentication, we also need to create a Twitter developer account and need to supply consumer key and consumer secret value from our application to Twitter for authentication.

Follow the given steps to get the consumer key and secret value from the Twitter developer account for your application:

  1. Log in to your Twitter account (https://twitter.com/).
  2. Navigate to the Twitter developer site (https://dev.twitter.com/).
  3. Scroll down to the footer and click Manage Your Apps under the Tools section.
  4. Click the Create New App button in the redirected page:
    Implementing Twitter authentication

    Fig 16 – Create your Twitter Application

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