On admin/settings/twitter the users gets the instruction "To enable OAuth based access for twitter, you must register your application with twitter and add the provided keys here."

This instruction is very poor, it is essentially missing details about the encryption system, the read/write access and the callback URL.

The message should be replaced with a page like this http://drupal.org/node/649714 or the instructions here : http://drupal.org/node/404470#comment-3415614 (Read/write access is important, because once an application is created with read-only access, then a Twitter's bug prevents from resetting this setting).

I have just been misled by the poor instructions, and had to spend a whole hour crawling in the issues tracker and googling, until I found the correct instruction.

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deggertsen’s picture

deggertsen commented

I agree. There needs to be official documentation on this.

michaek’s picture

michaek commented

I think documentation would be helpful, but it would be even better if the module provided warnings when it is misconfigured. Closely related to #935196: Module should raise notices when it is not configured (preventing Twitter authentication failed message)

dddave’s picture

dddave commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

This is better documented now.