Create gmail, facebook and twitter account through API?

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Is it possible to create gmail, facebook and twitter account through API?

Can we create Facebook and Twitter account through api now?Its been a long since this question was asked and many changes has been done since then.SO need to reconfirm that?Do Facebook Graph api supports this?What abt Twitter? — Rahul Singh, Oct 02 '12 at 03:07

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 18 '10 at 01:23

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Short answer: No.

answered Oct 18 '10 at 01:23

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No, because it would make it too easy to spam accounts. – nearlymonolith Oct 18 '10 at 01:29
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@ajsie: I would like to think that the main reason is to prevent the mass spam-bots registration. – zerkms Oct 18 '10 at 01:36
Set up an "API" to a Crowdsource provider. :| – sleep Oct 26 '12 at 02:42
It's possible with FB – Andrei Botalov Apr 29 '13 at 12:16
@Andrey Botalov: any reference? PS: keep in mind we're talking about real accounts, not testing ones – zerkms Apr 29 '13 at 20:55
@Andrey Botalov: and OP eventually had asked about real accounts – zerkms Apr 30 '13 at 07:30
@zerkms there's no either "real" or "test" in question so I assumed it doesn't matter. OP asks about just accounts – Andrei Botalov Apr 30 '13 at 07:41
@Andrey Botalov: I'm sure with your experience you may extrapolate in this case. Indeed, programming is a precise science, but this question isn't about testing, it's about spam-alike activity :-) – zerkms Apr 30 '13 at 07:47

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 21:28

Well for Google Apps you can sync a user directory (via LDAP) using Google Apps Directory Sync. This will provision, modify and de-provision any number of accounts without CAPTCHA verification. You will be billed for each one you create and they will all be in a domain you must own so there are practical limits for abuse, but this scales out to tens of thousands of accounts. There is no method to do this for Twitter and Facebook but things like this are a large part of the draw (for companies) of services like Yammer and App.net.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 02 '11 at 13:31

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Yes, for a fixed premier or education domain you can create accounts programmatically using the google provision api.

answered Sep 02 '11 at 13:31

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Create gmail, facebook and twitter account through API?

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