OK, that's more or less what I expected.

Just one last confirmation - the API key won't change though right?
So if I add read / write the read users won't suddenly be de-
authenticated?

Cheers,

Tim

On Jan 31, 6:19 am, Taylor Singletary <[email protected]>
wrote:
> You'll have to re-ask your users for permission for write mode and you won't
> have any way via the API to track who is ready to read/write yet -- you'll
> want to manage the conversion process yourself and track whether you've
> converted your users yet or not.
>
> The thinking behind this is that when your users authorized your app, they
> only authorized it for read-access. Wanting write access requires a new
> agreement with the user.
>
> The oauth/authorize step should now upgrade to read/write from read-only
> tokens when the user is re-challenged.
>
> Taylor
>
>
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>
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Adam Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So if a user authorizes an app for read access, the app can switch to
> > read/write at any time without asking the users permission? Is this
> > true? Anyone from Twitter have any input on this?
>
> > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Patrick Kennedy <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Tim -
>
> > > 1.  Changing from read to read/write won't change you API consumer
> > > keys or tokens.
>
> > > 2.  Your application's users don't authorized for read or read/write;
> > > they merely use your application, which you offer as read or
> > > read/write to the world.  That is to say, if it's read, your
> > > application can only read its tweets, and if read/write, it can both
> > > read its own tweet and post to the world.
>
> > > I'd say go ahead and switch to read/write, given the fact that you now
> > > want that functionality.
>
> > > ~Patrick
>
> > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Tim Bull <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >> We must be about the only developers in the universe that requested
> > >> users grant only read access when we first got people to connect
> > >>http://trunk.lyto Twitter (I think of the 40 or so apps authorized on
> > >> my account, Trunk.ly is the only one that asks for Read only).  Never
> > >> ask for more access than you need is my philosophy.
>
> > >> Doh!
>
> > >> Of course now, we want to add some Tweet out functions which require
> > >> users grant us Write access.
>
> > >> A couple of questions for the Twitter people.
>
> > >> 1. If we change the access in the application from read to read/write
> > >> does this reset the API key, or will it stay the same (hoping it stays
> > >> the same).
> > >> 2. How can I work out if existing users have authorised us for read/
> > >> write?  I looked at
> >http://developer.twitter.com/doc/get/account/verify_credentials
> > >> but it doesn't show me what access they have.  Do I have to write,
> > >> fail, force them to step through OAuth then post? Or is there a way of
> > >> knowing before hand it will fail and asking them to upgrade?
>
> > >> Thanks,
>
> > >> Tim
>
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