Applying for a developer account for educators

[LeBraat]

Hey @GLC,

This error is delivering because your students have already applied. There are two routes that we can go in this situation. We can either have your student’s create a temporary Twitter account that you can add to your organization account, or we can wait for your student’s accounts to be approved.

I know this is not ideal, and I apologize for that. We have listened to you and have plenty of work to do to improve this process. I will make sure to keep you updated on our progress.

[mdjoner]

At this point in time, there is no way to convert an individual account to an organization account.

Hi @LeBraat, at the moment I am still waiting for my review process to complete. I had submitted as an individual account before this thread took off. Is there a way to switch my application to an organizational one?

[mdjoner]

Well, my individual application approved yesterday. Should I just create a new twitter account and apply for an organizational dev account? Or is there a better approach / way to convert my account over?

[computa_mike]

I’m just wondering here : Could we create a ‘fake’ twitter - somethin that responds with canned responses? There are testing servers out there - something like https://github.com/sideshowcoder/canned might be useful.

You could sppin up a ‘fake’ twitter API endpoint with canned responses and you wouldn’t need to create a twitter developer account just to try testing application interoperability with twitter? It’s not ideal - but it might get you over the stumbling block of not being able to talk to the API.

[computa_mike]

There are probably other fake servers you could use. At the moment educators are waiting 2-3 weeks for an account - what if we as a community set up a fake twitter project (spent like 2-3 weeks working on it) and making it available as a resource for twitter developer learning. This would mean that you wouldn’t need to wait on twitter for a developer account to start learning to use the APIs

What do you think? If the API has a high level of fidelity it should be possible to emulate or simulate many of the situations that API developers may experience (such as rate throttling). Maybe the canned server isn’t the best solution - or maybe you know of a better solution. Let’s discuss.

[computa_mike]

Hi @GLC - I wrote a reply here Applying for a developer account for educators . It might be that this is too tight a timescale now for your coursework - but using a mock API totally removes the need to access the Twitter API, and potentially canned responses like that could be packaged into a github project, meaning that students can work totally disconnected.

What do you think? The only downside I can see is that you wouldn’t be able to see things tweeted on twitter - but you might be able to write some unit tests to confirm that the API is being called in the right way.

[GLC]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the suggestion, but I am not aware of any mock API service out there. Can you suggest any? One downside I see is that there is value in having students get their hands dirty with the actual API — there are several behaviors that are hard to replicate with a mock system, for example how to back off exponentially from a stalled connection. But it could be definitely an interesting alternative!

GLC

[GLC]

Oh I just saw your other suggestion. I wish I had 2-3 weeks available at the moment!

[LeBraat]

@SidfDevelopers - This topic is dedicated to educators. We have an existing topic on our waitlist timing for individuals who are not educators.

Marking your response as off-topic.

[system]

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