Allowing users to log in with Twitter

You can allow users to sign up and log in to your forum using their Twitter account. This is beneficial because you can use your Twitter app to tap into Twitter's huge viral reach, it increases sign ups by 35 to 50% because users know it will be easy to sign up or log in, and it automatically imports their Twitter profile picture.

Your users will see a Twitter button on the Log in and Sign Up screens that will allow them to log in or sign up for your forum through Twitter. An account and profile will still be created for them on the forum and they will appear as a normal user.

Logging in with Twitter can safely be used on private forums since nothing is shared outside of the forum.

You can enable logging in with Twitter on your forum by following the instructions below:

1. Visit the Twitter Developers section. (Note: You must be logged into your personal Twitter account to create an app.)
2. Click Create Project button.
3. Enter your desired name in the Project name.
4. Select any use case in the drop down.
5. Enter the project description.
6. Click on Create new button.
7. Enter the App Name.
8. You will see the API Key, and API Secret Key. Copy both of these.
9. Click on App Settings.
10. Click on Edit in front of App Details.
11. Upload your App icon. (Maximum size of 700k, JPG, GIF, PNG)
12. You may enter the description about your app in Description field.
13. Click on Save.
14. Click on Set Up in front of Authentication settings.
15. Enable OAuth 1.0a Setting
16. Enable Request email from users.
17. For the Type of App, select Native App option.
18. Enter https://FORUM_DOMAIN/oauth?service=Twitter&action=doOauthCallback in Callback URLs. (Replace FORUM_DOMAIN with your forum domain name.) If you have embedded the forum, log in and then view this support article to see the correct embed-friendly version of the URL you need to use.
19. For Website URL, enter
20. Enter Terms of service, and Privacy policy URLs. If you don't have any, enter
21. Click on Save.
22. Log in to your Website Toolbox account.
23. Click the Integrate link.
24. Click the Single Sign On link.
25. Enable the Twitter option.
26. In the Client ID text box, paste the API Key you copied previously at point number 8.
27. In the Client Secret text box, paste the API Secret Key you copied previously at point number 8.
28. Click the Save button.

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