New app Tweeting from wrong account

[Coby_Pear]

Hi,

I have had two bots active for a bit now, both under the same developer account, yet Tweeting from separate Twitter accounts.
I have added a third App to my developer account and wrote a 3rd bot. When I post a Tweet using the credentials of the 3rd app, the Tweet gets sent out on my 1st App’s timeline instead of the correct one.

I didn’t have this problem in the past and I am certainly using the credentials for the new app.

Thanks for your help.

[IgorBrigadir]

The access token determines what account you are making calls on behalf of. The first part of an access token is the Twitter User ID, followed by - and then some random characters - so you can identify what account an access token belongs to and use the appropriate one.

The access tokens generated on the developer portal are ALWAYS belonging to the app owner.

To generate ones for other accounts, follow:

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:/…

[Coby_Pear]

Thanks for the response, the link posted after “you can use…” leads to a dead end. Do you have an updated link?

[IgorBrigadir]

oh, that’s just the forum preview, see the full post in here: Multiple bot accounts