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HowTo: connect to Twitter

luweitest edited this page Aug 30, 2018 · 1 revision

Using Gajim 0.16 as sample, other XMPP clients should be similar.

Find services on decent.im

Menu → Actions → → Discover Services (You needn't have XMPP account on decent.im; use your own XMPP account)

In the address bar of opened "Browsing..." window, fill in "decent.im" and click "Go" button.

In found service list, select "decent.im Twitter Transport", and command button "Register" below should be available.

Register Twitter account at decent.im

Click "Register" button and a new window opens, fill in "3rd-party network username" your Twitter account name.

Click "OK" button. Several message window will tell you register OK, contact added, new message received, etc. Confirm all of them.

Grant Twitter access to decent.im

Open the new received message from new added contact "twitter" ([email protected]) in the roaster. (double clicking its name will do)

The message tells you to visit a link to https://api.twitter.com/..., click it.

In the browser window opened, click "Authorize app" button.

The Window show a series of number, which is the "PIN".

Back to the chat window with contact "twitter" and send a message with the format "#PIN ".

Done!