#1

Hi this is sandy and am new to twitter and also twitter developer accounts and apps.
When I started looking at how our application is posting community information to twitter accounts.Have many questions in mind.

At the moment we have separate twitter app/account to where we wanted to post twitter message from our application. And there are around 10 apps for development testing purpose and similar count of apps for production environments.

Questions in mind:

  1. What happens to these above existing individual apps if I open a new developer account for new apps.
  2. do I need to have separate developer accounts for dev purpose twitter apps and prod purpose twitter apps?
  3. We will need more than 10 apps for account. Does that mean we can multiple developer accounts ??
  4. Also, how long does the review takes place.

Could you please point me right help for quicker process. Is there any skype/slack channel that I could speak to for faster response. We are in bit hurry to move in existing/new apps to new account as you enforced.

#2

I can answer some of these from previous experience:

1: nothing, all old apps created on the old apps.twitter.com site will continue to work in the new developer site (even if your account is not yet approved or hasn’t applied yet)

2: No, you need just 1 developer account for both “dev” and “prod” purposes.

3: No, you most likely do not need more than 10 apps - chances are you have duplicate functionality and can use 1 app in place of many. With 1 app for 1 “purpose” like “Post updates” - different community accounts each have their own access tokens, and will use only 1 app to post.

4: It seems to vary quite a bit - anything from instantly to several weeks. Being very clear about your purpose in your application seems to speed things up.

This forum is probably the fastest way to get an answer.

#3

Thanks for the response.

1:
nothing, all old apps created on the old apps.twitter.com site
will continue to work in the new developer site (even if your account is not yet approved or hasn’t applied yet).

But all our apps are under its own twitter account. We have around 7 apps created for each agency post and each one has it’s own generic email address
/password to login under apps.twitter.com. So am just wondering how do I move these apps individually under it’s own account to one single developer account?

3:
No, you most likely do not need more than 10 apps - chances are you have duplicate functionality and can use 1 app in place of many. With 1 app for 1 “purpose” like “Post updates” - different community accounts each have their own access tokens, and will use
only 1 app to post.

I
can go through our setup/demo how the twitter message is posted on agency twitter pages.

To
give you detailed example: Our website posts twitter message say to agency1 twitter page, agency 2, agency 3 , agency 4 twitter pages.Based on the agency it uses corresponding agency app keys to post message to it.Hence in this case 4 agency apps (having
their own tokens to post it to them).

I
might need bit more details on how we can avoid creating more than 10 apps . We have around 8 agency’s at the moment to post message to them from our website. And am guessing we will need dev agency page / before posting live agency page for verification.
So overall, am thinking we might need 16 agency apps ( to get it’s own keys) for posting to them messages from our website.

#4

how do I move these apps individually under it’s own account to one single developer account?

Sure thing - this needs 1 approved developer account, and then each individual account that owns apps can transfer them to the 1 main one using Platform “I need to transfer an API key to another account” option.

Hence in this case 4 agency apps (having their own tokens to post it to them).

In this case, you can definitely use just 1 app - each agency would have to authenticate to this 1 app and you would have 1 consumer key & secret, and multiple access tokens belonging to each agency. This is the correct and recommended way to post to multiple accounts - tokens are long lived so they do not expire, so you would have to only do the Oauth process for each agency account once (saving their tokens for later use).

It sounds like you need just 1 application - and an implementation of Log in with Twitter | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform that will allow an account to log in, and generate tokens for you to use later to post for the agency.

You could probably achieve equivalent functionality with no API usage whatsoever, depending on how your websites are set up, there are other, existing third party apps that allow you to post tweets from a CMS site of some sort. Also have a look at all the options in Twitter for Websites | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform that do not require developer access - lots of common functionality and CMS integrations can be made without API calls.

#5

Thank you,
Can I have two developer accounts??
One for trail and another for prod/real one.

#6

No, you need 1 developer account - you can use different apps or different authenticated twitter accounts to test calls Developer portal overview | Docs | Twitter Developer Platform

See also “Multiple Applications” here: More on restricted use cases – Twitter Developers | Twitter Developer Platform

#7

Hi,

Thanks for answering the query.

When I am trying to apply for the Developer account, I got stuck with below step. Even though am entering the valid organisation twitter it’s not allowing me and keep popping up below error.

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I am stuck here, I tried with parent org username and even with our dept one. But still no luck.

#8

This looks like a Bug, and I’ll ask our engineering team.

#9

Thank you, Any luck ?

#10

Hi,

Would you mind providing me an update on below request.

#11

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