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Register your apps for Twitter login with Mobile Services

This topic shows you how to register your apps to be able to use Twitter to authenticate with Windows Azure Mobile Services.

Note

To complete the procedure in this topic, you must have a Twitter account that has a verified email address. To create a new Twitter account, go to twitter.com.

  1. Navigate to the Twitter Developers web site, sign-in with your Twitter account credentials, and click Create a new application.

  2. Type the Name, Description, and Web Site values for your app, and type the URL of the mobile service in Callback URL.

    Note

    The Web Site value is required but is not used.

  3. At the bottom the page, read and accept the terms, type the correct CAPTCHA words, and then click Create your Twitter application.

    This registers the app displays the application details.

  4. Make a note of the values of Consumer key and Consumer secret.

    Security Note

    The consumer secret is an important security credential. Do not share this secret with anyone or distribute it with your app.

  5. Click the Settings tab, scroll down and check Allow this application to be used to sign in with Twitter, then click Update this Twitter application's settings.

You are now ready to use a Twitter login for authentication in your app by providing the consumer key and consumer secret values to Mobile Services.

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