I have some basic questions (I am still learning this world) regarding
fetching another user's timeline...

1. If basic authentication is a must to get the feed for "protected
updates", then does that mean that a third party website that purports
to fetch a user's timeline needs to store the user's id and password
to repeatedly provide these parameters as part of basic auth while
fetching the timeline? Is that what sites such as friendfeed do? Or is
there a way to perform a one time login and then somehow use a user
specific credential on a long term basis?

2. When twitter moves to using oauth, will there be a way for other
friend
networks to continuously be able to fetch a twitter user's feed after
first time Oauth based authorization by using the user specific token
on a long-term basis?

Naveen

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