Actually, forcing an app to use the API is better for Twitter. You get
the data directly, and the system doesn't spend any time rendering the
HTML. Less data from us = less time tying up server resources.
There's no reason why you can't write a small amount of code to fetch
a user's Tweets and display them in an IFRAME in the same way that
you've described, with your site as the IFRAME's source.
There were few options to defend against clickjacking. Denying IFRAMEs
and preventing authenticated sessions from opening in them (when part
of another page) was our best defense.
-john
On Feb 15, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Shannon Whitley wrote:
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.
On Feb 13, 3:10 pm, Cameron Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
Because if the click-jacking incident yesterday it seems you've
added
something like:
//<![CDATA[
twttr.form_authenticity_token =
'966f6780e3bb206fe5f451d9ea40407f6532277f';
if (window.top !== window.self) { setTimeout(function()
{document.body.innerHTML='';},1);window.self.onload=function(evt)
{document.body.innerHTML='';};}
//]]>
Which I guess fixes the click-jack problem but now our app at
http://topichawk.com/is broken because we use an iFrame in a
harmless
way to display tweets. Is there a process to keep our site from
being
treated like a spammer?
Twitter doesn't support using <iframe>s and anything you had
working before
was almost certainly by accident. You're going to have to code
something up
that queries the API.
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