Getting new Twitter API consumer and secret keys

To get Consumer Key & Consumer Secret, you have to create an app in Twitter via

https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps

Then you’ll be taken to a page containing Consumer Key & Consumer Secret.

Hopefully this information will clarify OAuth essentials for Twitter:

1. Create a Twitter account if you don’t already have one
2. Visit ‘https://apps.twitter.com’ and follow the required prompts to create a developer project (Twitter requires you to answer some questions before they will approve your account. Approval was nearly instant in my case.)
3. Requesting the API key and secret via the Developer Portal causes Twitter to produce the following three things:

• API key (this is your ‘consumer key’)
• API secret key (this is your ‘consumer secret’)
• Bearer token

4. Next, visit the ‘Authentication Tokens’ area of the Developer Portal and generate an ‘Access token & secret’. This will provide you with the following two items:

• Access token (this is your ‘token key’)
• Access token secret (this is your ‘token secret’)

5. The consumer key, consumer secret, token key, and token secret should be sufficient to do Twitter API calls (they were for me). Good luck!