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
> >
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