Newly generated Twitter App Access Tokens are not valid, and Refreshing / Regenerating the token does not work

[jheckard_test]

I created a Twitter App earlier this week. It generated the Consumer Key / Secret and the Access Token / Secret.

I created a Twitter test app built around the current version of Abraham Williams’ Twitter OAuth library. Everything appears to be working, except that the Access Token is not valid.

When I put in the Access Token into the url https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=****, I get the response that ‘The request token for this page is invalid. It may have already been used, or expired because it is too old.’ I do not understand how a brand new Access Token can be expired or invalid.

When I attempt to Regenerate the Access Token and Secret, apps.twitter.com shows me the same token and the same secret.

How do I get a valid Access Token and Secret for a new app for Twitter?

[jheckard_test]

How do I get valid Access Tokens for my app and test user?

[abraham]

https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate is only used when you don’t have a user’s access_token yet. Since you have the access token from the app page you can skip that step and just start using the credentials for the user that created the app.

[jheckard_test]

Thank you for your response.

I understand. The issue is that the Access Token and Secret generated by apps.twitter.com are not valid, and Refreshing does not generate new ones.

[abraham]

How do you know it’s invalid? How are you trying to use it?

[jheckard_test]

I attempted using the generated Access Token to post a Tweet, to verify_credentials, and to get status?user_timeline. My PHP always got the response error 215. I ultimately tested the generated Access Token with oauth/authenticate, and the page informed me that the Access Token was invalid.
After deleting the app and creating a brand new Twitter App with a brand new set of Keys and Access Tokens, I was still getting the same response (error 215, invalid token).

[abraham]

Show a code sample of how you are using the tokens because I would expect the ones generated by Twitter to never be invalid.

[jheckard_test]

Thank you for taking the time to assist with this. Your help is greatly appreciated.

require_once(‘twitteroauth/src/TwitterOAuth.php’);

if (!defined(‘CONSUMER_KEY’))
{
define(‘CONSUMER_KEY’, ‘****’);
}

if (!defined(‘CONSUMER_SECRET’))
{
define(‘CONSUMER_SECRET’, ‘****’);
}

if (!defined(‘OAUTH_TOKEN’))
{
define(‘OAUTH_TOKEN’, ‘-’);
}

if (!defined(‘OAUTH_SECRET’))
{
define(‘OAUTH_SECRET’, ‘****’);
}

$connection = new Abraham\TwitterOAuth\TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_SECRET);

$content = $connection->get(‘account/verify_credentials’);
var_dump($content);

$post = “upload test”;
$status = $connection->post(‘statuses/update’, array(‘status’ => $post));

echo json_encode($status);

Adding print statements to parts of the OAuth library is how I figured out that the OAuth response is error 215 - Bad Authentication Data.

The content and status objects are both NULL after the code is executed.

[jheckard_test]

Is there anything wrong with my block of code?

If the Access Token is valid, what other causes would be creating the error 215 response I am seeing?