Thanks a lot, I was able to port my auth successfully using the second
link.
Just a heads up for anyone interested - this mechanism was described
here in depth:
http://masnun.com/blog/2010/04/30/setting-up-twitter-bots-with-oauth/
(turns out my twitter account is called a twitter bot.) Also, the
I created a twitter account, and a simple cron job that tweets every certain
period of time.
I fear my authentication mechanism might be affected by tonight's deadline,
is it? I use the following code to send twitter the tweet (the code that is
executed in the cron job)
/**
* Tweets a new