How to get email from twitter user using OAuthTokens

francescopipita · 2012-09-04T09:00:09.000Z

I believe that adding one more application permission that grants access to the user’s e-mail, can only simplify the life to developers and companies that wish to integrate their applications with Twitter.

During the sign-in with Twitter, If the end-user grants the access to its email address, then the process concludes successfully, else the third party application simply notifies the end-user that it has to grant access to its email for the process to conclude successfully.

Many applications require an email address to deliver important information to their users. If after signing with Twitter, they’ll have yet to ask the user for a valid e-mail address which will have in turn to be someway confirmed, it becomes a mess! So, for such applications, the sign-in with Twitter, does not provide any advantage if compared to a classic registration.

Honestly, I don’t see any reason why the end-user shouldn’t be able to chose whether to share its email or not

Cheers,
Francesco Pipita

oserra · 2012-09-07T14:18:20.000Z

I was about to integrate Twitter with my brand new app. Now that I see I cannot gather user email, I will left Twitter aside. I’ll focus on FB and G+

Kifffle · 2012-09-14T12:46:04.000Z

Have to agree with everybody here… pity that Twitter doesn’t provide a way to give our applications users email using “extended” permissions …
Have also to review my own development in order to use only “sign in with” process that give me “verified” emails…

regards…

fedmest · 2012-09-20T13:35:08.000Z

Very silly of Twitter to not provide an email address via the auth api. Every other provider does so. We will just remove twitter from the available options on our site. Shame!

santanusoftdev · 2012-09-26T11:10:00.000Z

how to get email from twitter user using OAuthTokens please replay me as soon as possible

pstemper42 · 2012-09-26T16:36:42.000Z

You cannot. Twitter does not allow you to get a user’s email address.

DamienKeitel · 2012-09-26T17:16:13.000Z

o.O @twitter. I just wrote a big comment but erased it. Shaking my head thinking…Rookies. I would have thought after 3 years they would have implemented this.

AtishGore · 2012-09-28T08:39:51.000Z

how to fetch user email address when the user is log in from twitter api using oauth token…if any answer please reply me…If there is another way to get email address please reply me…as soon as possible…

uniring · 2012-09-29T12:31:02.000Z

Uhm… ok, so 2 hours to integrate twitter connect to my site and i see that no email is returned. Time to change the button art to Google connect and point the oauth to that service… Nice one @twitter, ok, you said that twitter is not that “personal” but then do not provide a sign in with twitter service, call it like -connect to twitter only- service.

josemutie · 2012-10-03T20:55:17.000Z

My goodness. How can the twitter API not allow the retrival of the emails? Is it sth hard for the Twitter Dev team to do?
I really wanted to use the email on my app coz i need to send a verification email to the person so that he/she can activate his/her account but it seems il forego the use of Twitter Oauth and stick with Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Windows Live.

cuishijie · 2012-10-17T09:50:00.000Z

Faraway Chinese also need email from twitter

IdCapThatDotCom · 2012-11-10T21:42:55.000Z

Damn you twitter. You are ruining my plans.

4rsolutions · 2012-11-22T17:10:01.000Z

How do I get email from Twitter api? I need as fast as possible to finish a project.

fortycal_sig · 2012-12-13T20:25:01.000Z

Twitter folks- We’re in the same boat as everyone else. We need the email address (w/ user permission, of course) to ensure unique accounts/logins, and also to complete the value-prop of the social login, which is to save our users the hassle of entering and verifying their email address yet again.

Please consider our pleas out here.

Best,
Elliott

CaerCam · 2012-12-18T01:02:15.000Z

My case today. A complete evening wasted trying to develop a twitter login form for my forum. F it Twitter, you were already on the edge of evolution, I’ll use Facebook and Google only from now on.

travisjeffery · 2013-01-04T01:36:21.000Z

Another vote here to include emails, and like others I’m not including “Sign up/in with Twitter” because of this.

FredEatWorld · 2013-01-17T04:07:13.000Z

Too bad. I need email information (with user permission of course) but twitter not support it, from the developer side its very disappointed. Bye twitter.

bikashpal2008 · 2013-01-25T11:34:29.000Z

how can i do that?

witineo · 2013-01-25T15:12:32.000Z

I’m also considering if I must remove Twitter of the providers of my oAuth login process, or not.

Sorry Twitter, but I still can’t understand why you don’t provide that information as Facebook, Google, … do.

fro_oo · 2013-01-25T15:16:49.000Z

Please twitter api team… we know you can restore email in auth info.
A little bit of good will maybe…