If I change my twitter handle, is my developer account for that handle still active

[pinsonbavard]

Hi guys,

I have a developer account for an handle and it seems I cannot build apps for another handle even when I own the 2 Twitter pages.

Will I have to create another developer account for this handle and what happens if I change the handle to a different name, is the developer account still active.

[IgorBrigadir]

No, you only need 1 developer account, and that account name doesn’t matter - you need to use login with twitter and OAuth to authenticate other users. See here:

Multiple bot accounts

A Developer account is just a twitter account that can use developer.twitter.com to create apps etc. For convenience, when you create keys for an app on https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps it uses your account, ianskenny to create access tokens. When you authenticate calls, it has 2 parts: the consumer key & secret (that belongs to the app), and access token & secret (which belong to the twitter user) - To authenticate a new twitter user that’s not you, like a bot account, you can use https:/…