An access token can be used by your application to authenticate and act as that use for any of the REST API. Using your consumer token and the users access token you sign API calls which Twitter verifies and accepts/denys. I would recommend reading more about OAuth on http://oauth.net. Abraham
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 18:30, Sanny <sabbir.you...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've a question regarding OAuth that I couldn't find answer for. Say a > user has registered in my site and added his twitter account using > 'sign in with twitter' in my site. So I've got a access code and token > secret for that user. Now can I use that access code when the user is > not logged in Twitter to update his status or do something that > requires authentication? > > As I can see in the flowchart in this page - > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter, > it is probably not possible. Is there any other way out (using OAuth)? > > Thanks. > -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist | http://web608.org Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham Project | http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
