Marco, OAuth is still in public beta. We are growing comfortable with the software's abilty and even see early OAuth inclusion in consumer facing sites. Nothing has changed in our stance toward driving releases because we are still planning some UX improvements. However we all write software because we want users to enjoy our work and understand that some developers have OAuth-based applications ready to ship and support.
There is still time to get a source parameter through the manual registration process so developers that see the need should register now. We do not anticipate the layover from deprecation to the full release of OAuth to be very large which makes us confident that this deprecation is a safe move. Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Marco Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > Why are you deprecating a very important feature for the basic auth method > while your OAuth support is still in beta? > > The last official statement I read about Twitter and OAuth was that it went > public, but is still considered beta. Also, if I did not miss an > announcement, you were not yet encouraging developers to release OAuth based > stuff - has this changed? > > > > 2009/4/9 Mobasoft <[email protected]> > > >> When I discovered that Twitter used the name from my recetly created >> app via OAuth, I was pleased. >> While the turn-around time for manual approval was great, I think that >> using the data which we've already supplied through the creation of a >> new OAuth app is the right way to go. >> >> Keep up the good work. >> >> >
