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

jlabroy · 2013-02-20T11:47:40.000Z

Twitter… because of this, you are binned…

trushkevich · 2013-02-24T12:19:19.000Z

Oh twitter twitter… facepalm…

BradleyKlco · 2013-02-25T14:06:16.000Z

Hey Twitter, why not md5/sha1/sha256 the email address so we can at least have a way to compare it to email addresses already in the database?

It’s a win-win. You’re not giving out personal info and we will have a [less than convenient] way of checking to see if the user is already registered via another service!

manio_ · 2013-02-28T05:37:24.000Z

i just tried the API and couldn’t get the email id… how come !? how i’m supposed to ask users to activate their account ? or send news letters ? and if later i ask the user his email id, the sign up with one click will not make sense anymore… :-/

funky_monkey79 · 2013-02-28T06:58:08.000Z

yea totaly agree with you.

phpghost · 2013-03-15T17:35:36.000Z

Oh My GOD, Twitter API does not enable me to get Email address then what is the meaning of “Twitter login service” ?

popfatbit · 2013-03-19T05:42:58.000Z

total waste of time… g+ and fb are great for login authentication…

CheeseNPopcorn · 2013-03-19T18:32:27.000Z

Wow. I thought I was missing something when I noticed email was not included in twitter’s callback data. Add me to the list of people removing twitter signup from my application.

I get that twitter wants to limit data, but when so many applications use email as the “primary key” of sorts, not providing it defeats the purpose of using a 3rd party to identify and create users.

Neebi · 2013-03-26T17:34:01.000Z

Adding to the list of developers who hate the fact that you can’t get the email. It makes using Twitter auth almost useless, why can’t you explicitly ask for permission from the user for access to email. It should be up to the Twitter users to decide if they want to share their email, not Twitter the company.

MichaelDeMutis · 2013-03-27T15:54:40.000Z

Twitter login is totally useless! I guess you could allow them to link their twitter account to an account on your system, but they would still need to authenticate with email/password. It would be a one time thing to link the accounts and after that they could log in.

Vangii · 2013-03-28T18:33:35.000Z

Bye bye twitter… Without twitter users in my web application.

Dernise · 2013-04-07T12:24:43.000Z

It’s useless to use this authentification method if we can not have the email of the user. Please update the API, twitter !

guptapradeep438 · 2013-04-08T11:21:00.000Z

i am unable to get twitter page information on using twitter api. please in help me it is urgent.
Ex-https://twitter.com/microsoft/- I want to info about microsoft user data.

dostiharise · 2013-04-10T03:06:35.000Z

Cant agree more!

AnonSphere · 2013-04-16T23:01:20.000Z

There are exactly two information we need for registration:

1.) E-Mail
2.) Password

If the user must write his email in an extra field (after login lol), you can also drop the twitter login button too as it is no simplification. Also there is no way to check against our database as the username (the email) is part of the password hash. No email, no password hash.

And as a third reason. Without the user email, user will not be able to reset the password if twitter is not available for any reasons or if the user has no access to his twitter account. So twitter button is out. We will stay with fb and g+.

gentra · 2013-04-26T01:45:34.000Z

Yea, I totally agree with you.

This is one of my case too, I want to check whether the new user from Twitter is already registered on my app or not.

Please consider this, Twitter API team

jvsomething · 2013-04-29T10:36:53.000Z

Hi Twitter API team, we need email!

bsmartt13 · 2013-05-01T02:28:18.000Z

Gonna have to agree with the crowd here. I’m a developer with a manager above me (calling the shots) and the only reason we are offering twitter/fb/google auth is that we absolutely must have verified email addresses. The email activation process is something we want to avoid at all costs. Facebook / google OAuth2 allow us to make these two requirements achievable. In the case of an OAuth provider not supplying us with an email address, social login is literally meaningless to us. We are willing to live with the possibility of a social login not containing an email address (say, a facebook account with no email address attached), but if it’s guarenteed to not have an email then it’s more work for us to offer and yields no benefit.

1l_padr1no · 2013-05-02T15:47:57.000Z

Yeah, this is BS, fix the email and I will use it. For now I’ll use Google & Facebook and put their banners on my site.

1l_padr1no · 2013-05-02T15:53:17.000Z

+1