I think it's getting more urgent day by day: http://scobleizer.com/2009/01/01/twitter-warning-your-data-is-being-sold/
Richie http://twitter.com/RMetzler On 8 Dez. 2008, 18:09, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote: > It won't be available for testing this week, but should be available > before the end of the month. I'd definitely encourage you not to > launch on it, though, as it will be a beta. > > > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 08:16,Richie<rocketeer.so...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > > do you have any updates on whenOAuthis available? > > > Currently I'm doing the finishing touches on a new service and would > > love to let the users chooseOAuthfor authentication instead of > > requiere them to give me their secret pw. I'm experienced in using > >OAuthso I expect to get it working in a couple of hours. > > > Do you think Twitter will enableOAuththis week or should I start my > > service with user/pw-authentication first? > > > Richard > > > On Nov 27, 12:38 am, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote: > >> As I don't know the entire schedule of our UX team, I can't. I would > >> say less than a month and closer to a week by far, but please don't > >> hold me to that. > > >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 15:41, Amir Michail <amich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > On Nov 24, 5:05 pm, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote: > >> >> We're currently waiting on our User Experience team to put the final > >> >> touches on a BETA release of ourOAuthsupport. It's going to have > >> >> bugs, to be sure, but we should have it out there soon. > > >> > Could you give us a time estimate? In a week? A month? > > >> > Amir > > >> >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:53, Stut <stut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >> > On 24 Nov 2008, at 15:13, fastest963 wrote: > > >> >> >> A better alternative would be to just create an API key for > >> >> >> every user. Instead of entering username/password, they would enter > >> >> >> their secret API key? > > >> >> > This is far less secure thanOAuthand is actually not much better than > >> >> > requiring a username and password. > > >> >> > One of the core benefits ofOAuthis the ability to be very specific > >> >> > regarding what each authorised application is allowed to do, on a per > >> >> > application basis. It also allows you to selectively revoke the > >> >> > permissions > >> >> > of any specific application without needing to ask or even tell the > >> >> > application about it. To do this with the API key system you > >> >> > effectively > >> >> > need to re-authorise every app you use when you want to block just > >> >> > one of > >> >> > them. No real difference between this and having to change your > >> >> > password. > > >> >> > I would much prefer that the guys (and gals) at Twitter concentrate on > >> >> > gettingOAuthproperly implemented (which is harder than it sounds) than > >> >> > their attention gets diverted by developers too impatient to wait for > >> >> > the > >> >> > right solution to the problem. > > >> >> > -Stut > > >> >> > -- > >> >> >http://stut.net/ > > >> >> -- > >> >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > > >> -- > >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > > -- > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
