HACKER Q&A
📣 hosa

Why the Twitter app needs the time set correctly to work?


I want to know two things -how the twitter app discovers my time is incorrect -Why it needs me to have the correct time.. Usually I rant but im sure u all hate Twitter just as much as i do..


  👤 JoeMayoBot Accepted Answer ✓
Part of the OAuth protocol requires a timestamp, which needs to be within the same 5 minutes of the Twitter server. If the timestamp is out of these bounds, Twitter returns HTTP 401 Unauthorized responses and nothing works.

👤 runjake
My first guess is to prevent authentication and MFA issues for non-technical users.