Ok, I'll give it a try. Thanks.
On Aug 11, 5:02 pm, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote: > Hi Marc, > > You can do this using the OAuth authentication flow which you can find > athttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth#intro > > This may seem very much complicated for a simple application with only a > few users (and static keys), and I agree. However, unless there is some > service on the internet which simply allows you to get some keys in > exchange for your username/password (and I do not know any), you will > have to use this. > > Tom > > On 8/11/10 10:58 PM, Skygazer wrote: > > > > > Hi Taylor, > > > Ok, but how do you get an access token/access token secret for the > > other account without creating a new app? > > > On Aug 11, 3:49 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> > > wrote: > >> Hi Marc, > > >> In this case, instead of using the username/password of a different account > >> while making a request, you would use an access token/access token secret > >> belonging to a different account. You don't need to create separate > >> applications for each account, but you need to authorize the application to > >> act on behalf of each account. > > >> If you don't want to implement the OAuth flow to acquire access tokens in > >> your application, you can use another application or library (such as my > >> OAuth Dancer athttp://github.com/episod/oauth-dancer) to secure the access > >> tokens, then port them over to your "proper" application. > > >> Taylor > > >> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Skygazer <marc.bouc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> My company has several news sites and each has one or more Twitter > >>> accounts depending on the topic. I've created a new app using OAuth > >>> and PHP to post our news stories automatically as they are published. > >>> Previously with basic authentication I would just pass the username > >>> and password etc. to get the story posted. But now I'm wondering, do I > >>> need to create a new app for every Twitter account we have? Or can I > >>> post to our accounts with the one app I created with its keys and > >>> tokens? And if I can use just the one app, how do I post to the other > >>> accounts? The app was created on our primary Twitter account. > > >>> Thanks > >>> Marc > > >>> PS I already have the OAuth and PHP code working for our primary > >>> Twiter account.
