I'm developing an application designed to run on a public computer,
where many users will sign in with Twitter to register for our app.

I've been looking for a way to sign the user out of Twitter when they
exit the application (though a sign out button). Since we cannot
destroy the cookies set by twitter.com, all it does right now is
destroy our own session and cookies and show a button which links to
the Twitter sign out page (in a popup).

We would prefer not to use the popup, but instead sign the user out of
Twitter automatically when they sign out of our application. This will
greatly reduce the likeliness of people forgetting to logout (and thus
allowing access to their own account by the next user). We're already
using force_login=true to force a new login when someone connects to
our application, but then it could already be too late.

Is there any way to call a sign out through the API?

Account/end_session seems to be what I'm looking for, but I can't get
it to work. Another approach would be to scrape twitter.com for the
authenticity_token and call the logout from through cURL, but this
isn't the nicest way to do things and my first attemps have failed so
far.

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