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Asked: 2026-05-17T18:21:51+00:00

I have two questions (does that violate etiquette?) surrounding Twitter authentication. The first question

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I have two questions (does that violate etiquette?) surrounding Twitter authentication.

The first question is this. I’d like to store the access token that I receive but it is a dictionary object. Do I store the whole dictionary object or just some of the pertinent parts.

Secondly I’d like to know how to log the user out. I found this link that would help log a user out of Facebook – is there anything similar to this for Twitter (or is this logout method a bad idea) http://m.facebook.com/logout.php?confirm=1&next=

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you need to understand is that the OAuth protocol does not define “login” and “logout” concepts, those are inherent to your application. OAuth is a protocol to allow a consumer (your application) to access a resource owner’s (one of your users) data stored by a resource provider (in this case, Twitter).

    Do I store the whole dictionary object or just some of the pertinent parts.

    As far as I know, you only need to store the access token to be able to continue making inquiries to the server for the resources you requested (requesting new resources might require getting another access token). Keep in mind that this token may expire, and may be revoked at any time by the user directly through Twitter, and without your knowledge. This is by design in OAuth.

    I’d like to know how to log the user out

    There is no “session” in OAuth, that is a concept relevant to your application.

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