I have to agree with Cameron. The reality of the situation is that Twitter has provided an official, easy-to-use method for interacting with the site. If they decide to cut off other methods of working with Twitter, that's well within their right.
2009/2/15 Cameron Kaiser <[email protected]>: > >> I hope Twitter will reconsider these changes. With My Tweeple, I was >> able to provide a preview of a user's updates by displaying the page >> in an iframe. It was very convenient for the user to review someone's >> tweets before deciding to follow someone. It also appears that >> Twummize.com no longer works (one of my favorite simple mashups of >> Twitter and Twitter Search). Forcing an app to hit the API to >> recreate a page that already exists on Twitter.com seems like a bad >> thing for Twitter. > > Do you dispute, though, that having (possibly an authenticated session of) > Twitter in a dependent iframe was an exploitable insecurity? I'm not sure > how they could have dealt with the problem any other way. > > -- > ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ > -- > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * [email protected] > -- Aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes. -- Brian Braunschweiger > -------------- >
