GET account/verify_credentials
Returns an HTTP 200 OK response code and a representation of the requesting user if authentication was successful; returns a 401 status code and an error message if not. Use this method to test if supplied user credentials are valid.
Resource URL
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/verify_credentials.json
Resource Information
Response formats
JSON
Requires authentication?
Yes (user context only)
Rate limited?
Yes
Requests / 15-min window (user auth)
15
Parameters
include_entities optional
The entities
node will not be included when set to false
.
Example Values: false
skip_status optional
When set to either true
, t
or 1
statuses will not be included in the returned user objects.
Example Values: true
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Example Request
GET
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/verify_credentials.json
Example Result
{ "contributors_enabled": true, "created_at": "Sat May 09 17:58:22 +0000 2009", "default_profile": false, "default_profile_image": false, "description": "I taught your phone that thing you like. The Mobile Partner Engineer @Twitter. ", "favourites_count": 588, "follow_request_sent": null, "followers_count": 10625, "following": null, "friends_count": 1181, "geo_enabled": true, "id": 38895958, "id_str": "38895958", "is_translator": false, "lang": "en", "listed_count": 190, "location": "San Francisco", "name": "Sean Cook", "notifications": null, "profile_background_color": "1A1B1F", "profile_background_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/495742332/purty_wood.png", "profile_background_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/495742332/purty_wood.png", "profile_background_tile": true, "profile_image_url": "http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1751506047/dead_sexy_normal.JPG", "profile_image_url_https": "https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1751506047/dead_sexy_normal.JPG", "profile_link_color": "2FC2EF", "profile_sidebar_border_color": "181A1E", "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "252429", "profile_text_color": "666666", "profile_use_background_image": true, "protected": false, "screen_name": "theSeanCook", "show_all_inline_media": true, "status": { "contributors": null, "coordinates": { "coordinates": [ -122.45037293, 37.76484123 ], "type": "Point" }, "created_at": "Tue Aug 28 05:44:24 +0000 2012", "favorited": false, "geo": { "coordinates": [ 37.76484123, -122.45037293 ], "type": "Point" }, "id": 240323931419062272, "id_str": "240323931419062272", "in_reply_to_screen_name": "messl", "in_reply_to_status_id": 240316959173009410, "in_reply_to_status_id_str": "240316959173009410", "in_reply_to_user_id": 18707866, "in_reply_to_user_id_str": "18707866", "place": { "attributes": {}, "bounding_box": { "coordinates": [ [ [ -122.45778216, 37.75932999 ], [ -122.44248216, 37.75932999 ], [ -122.44248216, 37.76752899 ], [ -122.45778216, 37.76752899 ] ] ], "type": "Polygon" }, "country": "United States", "country_code": "US", "full_name": "Ashbury Heights, San Francisco", "id": "866269c983527d5a", "name": "Ashbury Heights", "place_type": "neighborhood", "url": "http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/866269c983527d5a.json" }, "retweet_count": 0, "retweeted": false, "source": "Twitter for iPhone", "text": "@messl congrats! So happy for all 3 of you.", "truncated": false }, "statuses_count": 2609, "time_zone": "Pacific Time (US & Canada)", "url": null, "utc_offset": -28800, "verified": false }