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Twitter Account setup

1. Logon to twitter.com with your gmail account and confirm or sign up for twitter with your gmail
account with a user and password.

2. Fill up the registration steps


3. Describe yourself Bio skip for now

4. Navigate to https://apps.twitter.com

And click on create an app


Add a phone number
Key in the verification code received on your mobile
Go back to developers.twitter.com , here you may need to request for an elevated access, fill in the
details and click on next
Agree on the developer policies
This will request a verification on your given email

Confirm your verification


Your email is confirmed

Now give an app name and click on get keys , it can be any name like CPI_TST etc.
Copy all the keys generated for reference and store it in a safe place

Store the 3 keys for reference

API Key :

API Key Secret :

Bearer Token :

The go to dashboard
Click Yes , I saved them

Now you will see the App in the dashboard


Go to your app settings and enable Authentication setup as well

Fill up the following details in User authentication settings


Click on Save

You will get a pop up, click yes


This would generate the keys for Oauth as well

Store the Client ID and Secret in a safe place.

Client ID :

Client Secret

It would ask to confirm the save


Then navigate to Keys and tokens
And generate the access token and Secret

Copy the tokens for later reference

Save the access tokens

Access token :

Access token secret :


Then click on Yes, I saved them

Your access token will be created with Read write permissions,

If you just see, read permission at this stage , you may have to request for an Elevated access

For elevated access go to the Twitter API v2 under products and request for elevated access
And navigate to Elevated access

Click on apply for elevated access

And fill up the details


Click on Next and fill in the details
Click on next and review the information filled and click on Next
Read and accept the terms of twitter

You will get the elevated access

Now if you want to regenerate the token , you may do so my going to your app again , however
remember if you regenerate the token , you make need to update the same in your CPI environment for
the twitter access token/key , additionally the api key and secret.
Please store the API Key & Secret , Access Token and Secret Keys with you as this will be used in CPI to
make the integration work with Twitter . Now you can proceed to the CPI exercise of twitter via
configuring your iFlows for twitter.

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