Hi, I'm writing to express a little concern about the upcoming deprecation of basic authentication. I have developed several twitter api apps and I understand the great advantages of using oauth for authentication, but it has one major downfall that makes things complicated here in china. That downfall is that you need to actually go to twitter.com in order to authenticate with the app. Since twitter is blocked in china, that is difficult. Most twitter users in china likely use an api proxy or some third party software and being able to use basic auth makes it possible without a vpn to access the twitter api.
In the same breath, I applaud the recent purchase of tweetie. It is the app of choice for people scaling the great firewall on the iphone. It has easy options to add an api proxy and it is widely used. I hope that with the deprecation of oauth, this app that I once paid for will not suddenly become unuseable. I appreciate all of your efforts. thanks, scott
