7 Simple Steps to create Twitter Application

First you have to download oAuth from github

“An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.”

7 Simple Steps to create Twitter Application using Twitter’s OAuth….

1. Build TwitterOAuth object

Login to twitter and register a new application here https://twitter.com/oauth_clients … after registering application save consumer key and consumer secret.

$to = new TwitterOAuth($consumer_key, $consumer_secret);

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2. Request tokens from twitter

$tok = $to->getRequestToken();

3. Build authorize URL

$request_link = $to->getAuthorizeURL($token);

4. Send user to Twitter’s authorize URL

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5. Get access tokens from twitter

$tok = $to->getAccessToken();

6. Rebuild TwitterOAuth object

$to = new TwitterOAuth($consumer_key, $consumer_secret, $user_access_key, $user_access_secret);

7. Query Twitter API with new access tokens

$content = $to->OAuthRequest(‘https://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml’, array(), ‘GET’);

$content = $to->OAuthRequest(‘https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml’, array(‘status’ => ‘Test OAuth update. #testoauth’), ‘POST’);Twitter - Redirecting you back to the application_1268502564768

Source:
https://docs.google.com/View?docID=dcf2dzzs_2339fzbfsf4
http://wiki.github.com/abraham/twitteroauth/links