2009/2/19 Dave Winer <[email protected]>: > > After we've made the switch to OAuth, is there a way to get the user's > handle? > > Twitter-based apps, as has been pointed out, haven't needed logins of > their own because all users had one with Twitter. So we have databases > with the user's name as the key field. Without the ability (unless I'm > missing something, apologies in advance) to determine the user's name > how would we find their info in our own (not Twitter's) databases? > > The ability to attach data to the user's account stored on twitter.com > would neatly solve the problem in an OAuth-friendly way, but you're > stll left with the problem of how to associate the data we've been > amassing in the pre-OAuth years with the new OAuth-identified user. > > Interesting (but real) issue if I'm not missing something, which I > probably am. :-)
Once you're authenticated make a call to the verify_credentials method - that will give you the user details of who's logged in. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/
