Use Twitter API v2

[IstoraMandiri]

What happened?

Perhaps because of twitter deprecating it's v1 API for new twitter account applications, after creating a new tweet, the following error occurs.

Run gr2m/[email protected]
Running twitter-together version 0.0.0-development
Tweeting: Hello, world!
error
[
  {
    message: 'You currently have Essential access which includes access to Twitter API v2 endpoints only. If you need access to this endpoint, you’ll need to apply for Elevated access via the Developer Portal. You can learn more here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/getting-started/about-twitter-api#v2-access-leve',
    code: 453
  }
]

What did you expect to happen?

For simple tweets, it should not need Elevated access.

What the problem might be

Support for twitter-api-v2 node library or some fork of twitter that supports v2, rather than twitter (updated 5 years ago) which supports v1 only.

[gr2m]

I'd very much appreciate any help with upgrading, as much as I wish I could, I can't devote much time to twitter-together right now

[IstoraMandiri]

Thanks for the response.

I am considering submitting a PR with a drop-in replacement of the current twitter package with twitter-lite which supports the same JS methods as well as the v2 API. This should require minimal code changes and maintain compatibility with the draft Front Matter PR.

Sound like a good approach?

EDIT: After looking deeper, it seems not to be a simple drop in replacement and will require updating request endpoints and params. For now I won't be pursuing this as we found an account with v1 access.

[MattIPv4]

Adding a note here that moving to the v2 API will allow for using the polls object on the status update API, removing the need for calling the Ads API in the code (completely removing the need for the createPoll method).

[MattIPv4]

Also adding a note that moving to a newer library should unlock the ability for alt text to be added to media (see #177 -- the current twitter library does not support the correct payload format).

[MattIPv4]

#207