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Add Twitter OAuth Support
OAuth is the preferred way of interacting with the Twitter API as it allows a user to authorize an application to work with Twitter and not divulge their password.
OAuth resources can be found at the address bellow.
http://oauth.net/code
An added benefit of using OAuth is that it easily caries over to working with the Facebook developer APIs.
OAuth resources can be found at the address bellow.
http://oauth.net/code
An added benefit of using OAuth is that it easily caries over to working with the Facebook developer APIs.
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We are now fully Twitter OAuthed, as it is intended for desktop applications, in the update to 2.0b. This is not very well understood by users, especially those that tweet we are not OAuth because we ask for the password. I will write a blog post about this soon.
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Inappropriate?Why is this asked for on an OS X desktop application? Your Twitter password goes in to your keychain, and the communication with Twitter is over SSL.1 Comment Add a comment
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Inappropriate?The adium folks (the twitter plugin) does it this way, but I also didn't understand the reasons. -
Inappropriate?Sometimes people just prefer to be paranoid. That extra level of security can help to make people feel more comfortable as they know that there is a vertain standard of security and authentication at play.
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Inappropriate?Seems Twitter is going to make some changes to their OAuth implementation to make it possible for desktop clients to implement without a completely horrible UX. Pending details we are considering this again.
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Inappropriate?We are now fully Twitter OAuthed, as it is intended for desktop applications, in the update to 2.0b. This is not very well understood by users, especially those that tweet we are not OAuth because we ask for the password. I will write a blog post about this soon.
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