Twitter integration not working

[Sim]

After a report from a user that they couldn't log in via Twitter, I confirmed I was having the same difficulty.

I checked my Twitter app settings and tried resetting the keys, but still getting the error. It also fails the Tools > Test Twitter Integration test.

This is happening on multiple sites (v 1.5.19 & 1.5.21).

Error message is as follows:

Whoa there!​

The request token for this page is invalid. It may have already been used, or expired because it is too old. Please go back to the site or application that sent you here and try again; it was probably just a mistake.​

 

[Sim]

Just tried to associate my Twitter profile with my account here on xenforo.com and received the following error:



So perhaps something has changed on Twitter's end?

 

[markku]

Just tried to associate my Twitter profile with my account here on xenforo.com and received the following error:

View attachment 178139

So perhaps something has changed on Twitter's end?

I created a ticket about this yesterday, and was told of one potential solution (I haven't tested if it works yet):

Delete the Twitter app from Twitter's developer portal, and re-create it. Insert the new client and secret keys into XF settings.

I rather not do that though unless absolutely necessary... because wouldn't that mean all the existing Twitter account associations with the forum are lost, and users would need to re-auth the Twitter app and associate their accounts again? That's a hurdle I would like to avoid.

 

[rdn]

Delete the Twitter app from Twitter's developer portal, and re-create it. Insert the new client and secret keys into XF settings.

Still not working for me for Apps created just few months ago (2 months I think).

 

[Slavik]

I have just tested with a newly made app and it works as expected for me.

If someone would like to open a ticket with your admin and twitter logins if it is still failing for you, we can look into if something is going on that isn't obvious on our test installs.

 

[Sim]

@Slavik do you have your Twitter login associated with your xenforo.com user account? Can you log in with it? I can't log in with my Twitter account here at the moment.

 

[trapped_soul]

I've had issues with Twitter for ages now. It's really intermittent too and a real pain.
Can't even connect my account on here either;

 

[Slavik]

@Slavik do you have your Twitter login associated with your xenforo.com user account? Can you log in with it? I can't log in with my Twitter account here at the moment.

No, not here, though we have confirmed there is something up.

 

[Chris D]

I've just fixed it here. The callback URL for our app was http://xenforo.com.

Clearly that's fairly legacy; we've been on https for ages and the callback URL for Twitter in XF2 is connected_account.php. Despite that, it has obviously been working for quite some time.

I updated it to https://xenforo.com/community/connected_account.php and it works fine.

For the people having issues, what do you have your callback URLs set as?

 

[Sim]

The instructions for XF1 said to set it to the board URL - https://xenforo.com/help/twitter-integration/

So I've set it to my /community URL ... not to connected_account.php - which I don't believe exists in XF1.x ?


FYI: I was able to successfully associate my Twitter account with my XenForo.com account.

 

[Chris D]

Indeed that was the correct advice at the time and it has only recently changed.

The correct URL now would be e.g. https://xenforo.com/community/register/twitter for XF1.

 

[Sim]

So for XF1:

• Website: <board url>
• Callback URL: <board url>/register/twitter
• Callback URL: <board url>/admin.php?tools/test-twitter

Is that correct?

(Edit: added 2nd callback URL as per @rdn's suggestion below - confirmed that these setting work for XF1)

 

[Sim]

I got the same error, so I tried deleting and recreating my Twitter App - but still no joy, "Test Twitter Integration" still fails.

 

[rdn]

I got the same error, so I tried deleting and recreating my Twitter App - but still no joy, "Test Twitter Integration" still fails.

Also add this callback: /admin.php?tools/test-twitter

 

[markku]

Indeed that was the correct advice at the time and it has only recently changed.

The correct URL now would be e.g. https://xenforo.com/community/register/twitter for XF1.

This fixed the problem for me (updating the callback URL to that format).
Thanks!

 

[Sim]

This fixed the problem for me (updating the callback URL to that format).
Thanks!

@markku are you running XF1 or XF2?

EDIT: never mind - @rdn's suggestion fixed it

 

[Sim]

Also add this callback: /admin.php?tools/test-twitter

Thanks - that did the trick ... test works, and associating my Twitter account with my profile also works again and I was able to log in to my forum using my Twitter account.

 

[trapped_soul]

So for XF1:

• Website: <board url>
• Callback URL: <board url>/register/twitter
• Callback URL: <board url>/admin.php?tools/test-twitter

Is that correct?

(Edit: added 2nd callback URL as per @rdn's suggestion below - confirmed that these setting work for XF1)

Also add this callback: /admin.php?tools/test-twitter

Thanks - that did the trick ... test works, and associating my Twitter account with my profile also works again and I was able to log in to my forum using my Twitter account.

Same here. Finally after some considerable time, this now works perfectly for us. Both with registering and when logging in. Thanks for the tip!

 

[pjkenned]

XF1 (onto .21) and it is happening for us as well.

Made those callback settings update in the apps.twitter.com pages and it is still not working.

Just adding a bit here. It strangely passes the twitter integration test, but users get the "Whoa there!" message. At "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=&oauth_callback="

 

[Wildcat Media]

OK, this explains two support emails we had.

• Callback URL: <board url>/register/twitter
• Callback URL: <board url>/admin.php?tools/test-twitter

I first created new keys, then I used these two callback URLs, and now it seems to be working again.