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I’m currently using OAuth to authenticate people with their twitter (twitter gems) acount in my application. The problem is that for people who aren’t connected or who have various accounts.
So that’s my question, is that possible, to ask user their login/password to link their twitter account on my application ?
Thanks
It is no longer possible to connect to Twitter’s API using Twitter credentials. Twitter’s public stance on this is that you should -never- provide your Twitter credentials to anyone else, ever. This is part of their rationale for implementing OAuth.
Even if you had the user’s Twitter password, you couldn’t validate that it was actually their password, nor could you access their Twitter account with it through the Twitter API.