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sillygwailo / Slack-Twitter

Read your timeline, fave tweets, and post to Twitter from Slack.
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Instructions ambiguity #11

Closed jaredbidlow closed 9 years ago

jaredbidlow commented 9 years ago

For deploying to Heroku, if I only follow steps 1-4, why do I have to enter a Twitter app's environment variables?

sillygwailo commented 9 years ago

@jaredbidlow Because you need a Twitter "app" (one from apps.twitter.com, not a client app) to give the Slack bot permission to post tweets and read your timeline. You're essentially manually authenticating your Twitter account to read and post tweets.

(Sorry for the delay in responding, I didn't see the initial notification of this.)