Nope, we'll investigate it this coming week.  Hang tight!

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:29, scottjgo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Alex-
>
> I posted a follow-up on the bug for this feature -- would it be better
> for me to open a new bug?
>
> On Dec 13, 3:12 pm, "Alex Payne" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Indeed, anybody can randomly fill in any source.  The incentive for
>> faking requests from a particular application is so low that we don't
>> put any protections in place.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:32, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Is it maybe tied into the referrer so it only works coming from the website
>> > that is supposed to have the source? I find it unlikely that anybody can
>> > randomly fill in any source.
>>
>> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:58, Dharmesh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> I have not been able to get this to work yet (i.e. passing a valid
>> >> source= parameter still shows updates as being from the web).
>>
>> >> Example:http://twitter.com/home?status=Testing&source=TwitterGrader
>>
>> >> Thanks.
>>
>> >> -Dharmesh
>>
>> >> On Dec 12, 12:32 pm, scottjgo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > Has anyone gotten it to work? Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> >> > On Dec 12, 12:20 pm, "Alex Payne" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> > > The feature has been deployed...
>>
>> >> > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 18:16, scottjgo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> > > > Hi.
>>
>> >> > > > I guess this feature was added a week ago. Thanks!
>>
>> >> > > > I'm having a bit of trouble with it though. I tried the url
>> >> > > >http://twitter.com/home?status=test&source=isitfunnytodaycom(my
>> >> > > > source paramter was approved over 48 hours ago) and my post is still
>> >> > > > 'from web'. I also tried using the source parameter twitterific,
>> >> > > > which
>> >> > > > also showed up as 'from web'. Is feature not deployed yet?
>>
>> >> > > > On Nov 21, 5:01 pm, scottjgo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > > >>http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=163
>>
>> >> > > >> On Nov 21, 2:51 pm, "Alex Payne" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >> > > >> > We recently had another request to allow messages posted from the
>> >> > > >> > web
>> >> > > >> > to define their own source parameters.  We'll consider it.
>> >> > > >> >  Please
>> >> > > >> > file an issue
>> >> > > >> > athttp://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry.
>>
>> >> > > >> > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 01:36, scottjgo <[email protected]>
>> >> > > >> > wrote:
>>
>> >> > > >> > > Bummer.
>>
>> >> > > >> > > I don't suppose you'd be willing to add a simple &appid= or
>> >> > > >> > > something
>> >> > > >> > > to the url that lets you modify the posted from link (given
>> >> > > >> > > that the
>> >> > > >> > > link was already approved for your app id)?
>>
>> >> > > >> > > On Nov 20, 5:03 pm, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > > >> > >> Yes, you'll need to make a proper API request to have your
>> >> > > >> > >> update
>> >> > > >> > >> attributed.
>>
>> >> > > >> > >> --
>> >> > > >> > >> Alex Payne
>>
>> >> > > >> > >> On Nov 20, 2008, at 10:05, scottjgo <[email protected]>
>> >> > > >> > >> wrote:
>>
>> >> > > >> > >> > Hi.
>>
>> >> > > >> > >> > I want to add a "tweet this" link to my website. The idea is
>> >> > > >> > >> > that you
>> >> > > >> > >> > would click the button, and it would prepopulate the message
>> >> > > >> > >> > field on
>> >> > > >> > >> > twitter with a link. Ideally, you would authenticate through
>> >> > > >> > >> > twitter.com so I can avoid handling passwords.
>>
>> >> > > >> > >> > I understand you can use a link
>> >> > > >> > >> > like:http://twitter.com/home?status=Putyourmessagehere
>> >> > > >> > >> > but is it possible to replace the "from web" with a link to
>> >> > > >> > >> > my
>> >> > > >> > >> > website? Without that, it sort of eliminates the cool viral
>> >> > > >> > >> > advertising. Is the only alternative to use the real api
>> >> > > >> > >> > (and handle
>> >> > > >> > >> > passwords)?
>>
>> >> > > >> > >> > Thanks.
>> >> > > >> > >> > -sjg
>>
>> >> > > >> > --
>> >> > > >> > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
>>
>> >> > > --
>> >> > > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
>>
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