yeah - we don't expire tokens, however, as said, you should be resilient to the fact that somebody may revoke a token.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Josh Roesslein <[email protected]>wrote: > I believe Twitter currently does not expire access tokens. > They may become invalid in the future due to the user revoking access > to your application. > Otherwise it should be good still for a long time. > > Josh > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Dmitri Snytkine <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is this the right group to ask about the OAuth implementation? > > > > I am new to OAuth, just decided to learn more and to try to add "Login > > with twitter' to my CMS > > I have a question - how long is the token good for? I mean, is the > > token life somehow tied to a user's session or can I use a token after > > user has left my site, for a relatively long time? > > > > If I want to create a service like twitlater, where a user creates > > messages and tells the service to send them in a few days or in a > > month, will OAuth work for that or will the token expire before the > > time to send message? I mean the original user who set the 'time to > > send' will not be logged in at that time anymore. > > > > I'm just not sure if OAuth token will still be valid after a month. > > > > How long is it good for? > > > > Thanks. > > > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
