How to get email is using twitter api on callback page using php

luchomolina · 2012-08-01T17:12:33.000Z

Twitter: you gotta be kidding me.

animeshbuie · 2012-08-03T12:03:00.000Z

the twitter api doesn’t provide the email

scrapehere · 2012-08-06T13:10:09.000Z

+100000 to all concerned user above…
email is must i guess, or atleast facebook type permission model…

Also when are you guys migrating to OAuth 2.0.? C’mon guys you have lot of funding, this is must for developers for better adoption of twitter

scrapehere · 2012-08-06T19:30:20.000Z

But, does anyone monitor or bother to user requests on this page… I don’t see any security reason if email is allowed… Facebook is doing comfortable with extended permissions… For, its sure looks like a design flaw… Any genuine acceptable reason will be much appreciated…

Ivan_Alastor · 2012-08-07T07:07:00.000Z

wtf? I want to use in my site registrations used twitter account. But for this action I must use additional step for get user email??? LOL usability = 0
like birthday field…
It’s very very very bad

nicopreviale · 2012-08-09T20:06:33.000Z

Good Twitter, keep with your 6% market

jhowell · 2012-08-09T21:51:00.000Z

LinkedIn felt the same way and “caved” this week [1, 2]. While I understand the power of being able to revoke application permissions and how returning an email address limits this power, it’s better for everyone. Please update this thread once you all decide to provide a truly outsourced authentication layer.

[1] https://developer.linkedin.com/thread/3265
[2] https://developer.linkedin.com/blog/making-it-easier-you-develop-linkedin

atmatambo · 2012-08-11T21:01:03.000Z

i DONTunderstand why you twitter guys are NOT DOING anything about this, we NEED the EMAIL, it is the most SIGNIFICANT part of the puzzle, asking the user to type in their email address after signing in with twitter is ridiculous

seyisulu · 2012-08-18T16:32:00.000Z

Twitter, really? Ask the user for email?
You have to be kidding!
Twitter login out.

dadvir · 2012-08-22T00:16:38.000Z

Hi,

Does anyone knows whether Twitter would roll out an update to include the user’s mail address?
Why would I implement the sign in with Twitter?

I need the e-mail for the application needs.

Please help/answer.

Best regards.

JormaKarvonen · 2012-08-26T18:26:09.000Z

It looks like all designers are designing their application equally. They want to use user’s e-mail address to prevent duplicate log-ins. Twitter provides you with an unique “e-mail address”. Here @JormaKarvonen is one of them. If you create an application with the twitter id only, you are garanted that no user is using his/her e-mail address twice to log-in your system. Ignore fb log-ins, use only twitter.

JulienCoupez · 2012-08-31T13:15:38.000Z

Facebook does give email, 850M users doesn’t care…
Twitter doesn’t, none of developpers would add it…
Wrong choice, Twitter team…

emmanix2002 · 2012-09-05T19:18:33.000Z

Actually, same issue…
It took me less than an hour to set up sign in with Google and sign in with Facebook.
Spent the better part of the day trying to grok sign in with Twitter; now I have it working, only to realise that it’s not so useful (at least considering my apps structure).
This is very disappointing!

dhawannikunj · 2012-09-10T10:20:00.000Z

Twitter API is useless without email… I am using ASP.Net MVC 4 and integration with google and yahoo was less than 1 minute and with Facebook I could get the email with little efforts…

Twitter - Please provide email address otherwise your login API is useless to most of the developers…

I Removed the twitter button too…

shanoofrahman · 2012-09-13T04:56:49.000Z

whats the coding for twitter API

fedmest · 2012-09-20T13:38:28.000Z

Every other provider we have been working with (Google+, LinkedIn, Windows Live, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, and a few more) passes email addresses on to the app that is signing in.

It is a shame but we will have to remove twitter from the available options. After all, it is ridiculous to expect that the user (after signing in with Twitter) will also want to again provide their email address: they’ve already done so in signing in!

Very silly attitude of the twitter people!

zogash · 2012-09-21T13:24:40.000Z

+1

pstemper42 · 2012-09-26T16:31:06.000Z

I totally get twitter’s response of “We don’t want to give out personal information”, which is why the other providers (like FaceBook) allow you to specifiy that you NEED the email, and let the person logging in decide if they trust the site enough to give them their email.

We are implementing a site (like many others) that use the email address as the “key” for a user. We are supporting the major authentication APIs from the major vendors, with the exception of twitter now…

One less login type to support. Thank you Twitter for making the decision for us!

husseinimel · 2012-09-27T20:08:18.000Z

I think it’s funny that Google and Facebook who have far more users than Twitter make this information available, but Twitter chooses not to. In fact, most Twitter users already have Facebook and/or Google accounts.

So why are you making decisions for users instead of letting users make up their own mind?

This “moral high horse” attitude is a little puzzling. Far bigger and more useful fish in the sea make this data available and leave the choice to their users whether to provide it.

binotxa · 2012-09-28T00:13:09.000Z

I agree too, please change to OAuth v-2 and let us get the user email address