Create an App in Twitter Developers

This section describes for how to create an app in Twitter, by doing the following steps:

Log in to your Twitter account and navigate to the Twitter App Management Console.

Developers Page

If this is your first time creating an App on Twitter. You will see a button to ‘Create New App’.

Create an App

A pop-up confirmation appears, click the ‘Apply’ button.

Pop-up Confirmation

Select your primary reason for using Twitter developer tools, click the ‘Get Started’ button.

Primary Reason

Confirm Twitter account, enter your country, enter what would you like us to call you, and select the current coding skill level. Then, click the ‘Next’ button.

Basic Info

Enter how will you intended to use the Twitter API, click the ‘Next’ button.

Intended Use

Correct and review your Twitter developer account, click the ‘Next’ button.

Review

Read and Agree on the term of Twitter developer account application then, click the ‘Submit application’ button.

Term

Confirm your email so, it can process and review your application.

Verify Email

Your application is under review, and you will receive a notification with the result.

Application received

If your account application Twitter approved, you will receive a notification that your Twitter has been registered as a Twitter developer.

Then, sign in to your developer account to get started, on the Projects & App menu, click the ‘Add App’ button.

Create App

Enter your app name and click the 'complete' button.

Name your App

Then, you will direct to your access key and token. This key and token will be displayed once.

Keys and Tokens

After you successfully created the Twitter application you’ll be redirected to its App Settings Tab. click on the App Permissions section. If the permission is ‘Read and Write’, please edit the permission and make it ‘Read, Write and Direct Messages’.

App Permissions

You will have a notification success after you click the 'save' button.

Then, you must set up a dev environment for the endpoint, go to the Products menu and select ‘Dev Environment’.

Dev Environment

On the Account Activity API/Sandbox, click the ‘Set up dev environment’ button.

Set Up Dev Environmet

On the pop-up set up account activity API dev environment, enter your ‘Dev environment label’ and choose your ‘App’. Then, click the ‘Complete Setup’ button. You will see the notification that your dev environment successfully set up.

Success Notification

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