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Twitter authentication

Twitter authentication

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Twitter authentication

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- [Instructor] The first step to enable Twitter authentication is to go and create a Twitter app. In your browser, navigate to apps.twitter.com and login by entering your Twitter credentials. After you login, this is the view that you're going to see. Click the create new app button to create a new application. Provide the name, a short description, a website URL, and a callback URL. Now the callback URL needs be the same like your application URL. So to get your application URL, go to Visual Studio in the Solution Explorer, select your project, in the Solution Explorer, select your project and press F4. Here you have your project URL. Copy this value and go back to your Twitter application. Place it here and write signin-twitter. At the end, check the developer agreement and click the create your Twitter application button. After the app has been created, go to the keys and access tokens tab. From here, copy the API key and API secret values. Place these values, place these…

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