Description

The Twitter IDP is using an a library twitter4j which hasn't been released for 3 years. In addition to that, Twitter now supports an OAuth 2 entpoint, and we have a generic OAuth2 provider.

Value Proposition

Deprecating and removing the library would reduce the maintenance burden on the Keycloak team. We would also stop depending on a library that is probably no longer maintained and uses an old API.

Goals

• Simplified maintenance in Keycloak
• Reduced dependencies
• Have the old library deprecated in 26.5 and removed in 27.0

Non-Goals

• Try to avoid creating a new Twitter IDP, instead try to use the new generic OAuth2 IDP now available in Keycloak

Discussion

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Notes

OAuth2 documentation at Twitter aka X:
https://docs.x.com/fundamentals/authentication/oauth-2-0/overview