13.4 Getting Twitter Credentials—Creating an App

Once you have a Twitter developer account, you must obtain credentials for interacting with the Twitter APIs. To do so, you’ll create an app. Each app has separate credentials. To create an app, log into

https://developer.twitter.com

and perform the following steps:

  1. At the top-right of the page, click the drop-down menu for your account and select Apps.

  2. Click Create an app.

  3. In the App name field, specify your app’s name. If you send tweets via the API, this app name will be the tweets’ sender. It also will be shown to users if you create applications that require a user to log in via Twitter. We will not do either in this chapter, so a name like "YourName Test App" is fine for use with this chapter. ...

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