Twitter Social Identity Provider

Set Up Twitter

To set up Twitter as a social identity provider, navigate to the following page: Single-user OAuth with Examples . You'll need a Twitter account. You can then navigate to the Twitter Application Management page, where you can select Create New App and enter at least the following information:

When complete and saved, you should see a Consumer Key and Consumer Secret for your new web app.

Configure Twitter as a Social Identity Provider

When you enable a Twitter social identity provider in the Admin UI, IDM generates the identityProvider-twitter.json file in your project's conf/ subdirectory.

When you review that file, you should see information beyond what you see in the Admin UI. The first part of the file includes the name of the provider, endpoints, as well as information from the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, you'll see them as clientId and clientSecret, respectively, in the configuration file.

{
    "provider" : "twitter",
    "requestTokenEndpoint" : "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token",
    "authorizationEndpoint" : "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate",
    "tokenEndpoint" : "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token",
    "userInfoEndpoint" : "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/verify_credentials.json",
    "clientId" : "<Client_ID_Name>",
    "clientSecret" : {
      "$crypto" : {
          "type" : "x-simple-encryption",
          "value" : {
              "cipher" : "AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding",
              "stableId" : "openidm-sym-default",
              "salt" : "<hashValue>",
              "data" : "<encryptedValue>",
              "keySize" : 16,
              "purpose" : "idm.config.encryption",
              "iv" : "<encryptedValue>",
              "mac" : "<hashValue>"
          }
      }
    },

You should also see UI settings related to the social identity provider icon (badge) and the sign-in button, described in "Social Identity Provider Button and Badge Properties".

You'll see links related to the authenticationIdKey, redirectUri, and configClass.

The next part of the file includes schema information, which includes properties for each social identity account, as collected by IDM, as well as the order in which it appears in the Admin UI. When you've registered a user with a Twitter social identity, you can verify this by selecting Manage > Twitter, and then selecting a user.

Another part of the file includes a propertyMap, which maps user information entries between the source (social identity provider) and the target (IDM).

If you need more information about the properties in this file, refer to the following appendix: "Twitter Social Identity Provider Configuration Details".

Configure User Registration to Link to Twitter

Once you've configured the Twitter social identity provider, you can activate it through User Registration. To do so in the Admin UI, select Configure > User Registration, and activate that feature. Under the Social tab that appears, enable Social Registration. For more information on IDM user self-service features, see "Self-Service End User UI".

When you enable Social Registration, you're allowing users to register on IDM through all active social identity providers.

Twitter Social Identity Provider Configuration Details

You can set up the Twitter social identity provider through the Admin UI or in a conf/identityProvider-twitter.json file. IDM generates the identityProvider-twitter.json file when you configure and enable the Twitter social identity provider in the Admin UI. Alternatively, you can create that file manually.

The following table includes the information shown in the Admin UI Twitter Provider pop-up window, along with associated information in the identityProvider-twitter.json file.

For information on social identity provider buttons and badges, see "Social Identity Provider Button and Badge Properties".