Nearly all the users on my dabr install are Chinese and have found it
via word of mouth.
Once BasicAuth is turned off I plan to close the page down.
I was considering a man-in-the-middle OAuth dance, in which anyone who
trusted me gave me their username and password. I did the dance and
gave them
If they can't get to Twitter even once, then the point of the original
argument is lost as they need to set up a Twitter account in the first
place.
Perhaps the OP should obtain permission from Twitter to create
accounts for persons affected by censorship and then facilitate their
access through
You're failing to see the point.
In the past, with basic auth, there was no need to create any sort of
account from the third party app side. No need for a database, local
accounts, nothing. A user could login as this wish, without issue,
regardless as to whether or not they need to access the
At least people at work have the potential to use phones to access
Twitter…
I'm worried about users like those in China behind The Great Firewall.
Currently, they can interact with Twitter by using proxies and http
basic auth. But OAuth requires access to twitter.com (or some sort of
mediation).
IHMO the discussion of international politics and social media should
take place in a wider forum, such as Twitter itself, and not be
limited to oAuth vs. basic authentication. ;-) There was a keynote
speech at Open Source Bridge 2010 by Danny O'Brien about this - see
Add that to the list of even more reasons why this is an issue.
However, even stating oh well, tell them to use their cell phones,
obviously isn't a solution of any degree. Smart Phone penetration in
the US, for example, is still less than 20%...
On Aug 13, 9:43 am, earth2marsh
