This seems like to much of an edge case for Twitter to spend resources on.

Abraham

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:23, Mike Repass <mike.rep...@gmail.com> wrote:

> A scenario for justifying invalidateToken:
>
>    - User visits AwesomeApp and wants to connect his Twitter account
>    - AwesomeApp redirects to Twitter's OAuth flow
>    - User fails to notice that someone else, UserX, is already logged in
>    to Twitter in the current browser and clicks through
>    - AwesomeApp detects (somehow, perhaps later) that the wrong Twitter
>    user is connected. They can be a good citizen and revoke the token
>    completely, then send the user back through a full OAuth flow that asks for
>    username/password regardless of sign-in state.
>
> Just my $0.02,
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Josh Roesslein <jroessl...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> There is no API endpoint that I know of and don't think one should exist.
>> Users should not trust
>> thirdparties to self-revoke access to their accounts. Users should know
>> how to do it from twitter.com
>> via the connections page. It might be nice if we could generate a redirect
>> link to a page on twitter.com
>> where the user can then revoke the access (sort of like the authorization
>> page).
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Ryan Amos <amos.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there anyway to send a request to revoke a token completely without
>>> requiring the user goto their connections page on twitter?
>>>
>>>
>>> We allow our users to revoke access via our application, but that only
>>> revokes it on our side.  The application would still show up on their
>>> twitter.com connections page.
>>>
>>> Google has one by sending a request to:
>>> https://www.google.com/accounts/accounts/AuthSubRevokeToken
>>>
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>>
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