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I am new to OAuth and have been playing around with the Twitter API. I am able to fetch the credentials of a user after authentication by making a request to http://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml. The response contains the user id, screen name etc. but not the email ID.
Is it possible at all to retrieve the email ID of the user?
Update
I believe Facebook provides this information if you specifically request for extended permissions. Is there something similar for Twitter?
The user’s email address can not be retrieved via the API. This is a deliberate design decision by the API team.
UPDATE 2015.08.18:
It is possible to request an email address from users, but it requires your app to be whitelisted. See https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/account/verify_credentials for details of the API call and this form to request whitelisting of your app.