We just started to return the "X-Access-Level" header for authenticated API requests, that tells you what access level the user token has:
- "read" (Read-only) - "read-write" (Read & Write) - "read-write-privatemessages" (Read, Write, & Private Message) The FAQ on http://dev.twitter.com/pages/application-permission-model-faqwill be udpated in a minute :) Hope that helps, Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Tyson Lowery <tysonlow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think I found the answer from themattharris: > > > How do we know what the access level of a user token is? > > This is a great idea and one the team has discussed. What we are > going > to do is add a new header to authentication requests that will tell > you the access level of the token you authenticated with. We’re > working on this now and hope to have it released in the next few > days. > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk