You would ask your users to re-authenticate and send them through the OAuth flow again, this time to exchange their RW token for a RO token. By re-authenticating, they would invalidate the RW token and you would then consume the new RO token.
@episod <http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=episod> - Taylor Singletary On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Simon Cast <simon.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Taylor, > > Thanks for the info. > > How is it possible for a user to downgrade their token? I know > applications can be removed but I've never seen the ability to > downgrade? > > Regards, > > Simon > > On Jul 1, 3:06 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> > wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > > > 1. Yes, your existing tokens with the application will still work when > you > > make this change. > > 2. Yes, your existing tokens will continue to have the higher level of > > permission that they were originally granted at. > > > > When an end-user does "downgrade" their token to the read-only flavor, > the > > strings for the access token will also change. > > > > @episod <http://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=episod> - Taylor > > Singletary > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Simon Cast <simon.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > We are looking at reducing the permissions, R/W => R, on our > > > application. I have several questions before we attempt this: > > > > > 1. Will the existing tokens associated with the application still > > > work? > > > 2. Will the existing tokens still have the higher level of permission? > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Simon > > > > > -- > > > Twitter developer documentation and resources: > https://dev.twitter.com/doc0 > > > API updates via Twitter:https://twitter.com/twitterapi79 > > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > > >https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > > Change your membership to this group: > > >https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk