getting twitter username with access token

Question

I've a php application and successfully create a function to save access tokens and secrets in the database. (It's about sending specific content to their profile)

I want to show them which twitter account they linked to my application. How can I get their twitter user with access token?

Thanks for help.

Answer 1

When you get the access token Twitter also returns a screen_name and user_id variables. You can use those instead of making an additional request to GET account/verify_credentials

Answer 2

Use this instead:

$credentials = $connection->get('account/verify_credentials')

and then to get username, name, and location-

$name = $credentials->name;

$username = $credentials->screen_name;

$location = $credentials->location;

Answer 3

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/users/lookup/api-reference/get-users-me

This works with the latest API v2.