If any developer has tried writing applications to access the twitter API, then am sure they have been in the same situation as I have been. On many blogs that I read, am required to pass in the consumer key and the consumer secret. However this is not possible in the strict sense of terms since an application on twitter has these four values:-
1. API key
2. API secret
3. Access token
4. Access token secret
From the list above which of the these can one possibly call the consumer key and secret?
Using trial and error these two keys seem to work for me
-API key
-API secret
So the next time it happens you are reading through the docs talking about consumer key or secret simply replace the consumer values with the API values in your twitter app and the rest should be able to work fine.
A whole lot of information about this is found on the twitter developers page here.