Hello, I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND why Twitter so much encourages OAuth, in spite of costing API users.
I read the section "What Does OAuth Give Me? (a.k.a. Why Bother?)" of this article: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth+Example+-+Ruby , but I could not find what is the advantage of using OAuth *for client- software makers* . Client softwares must know end-users'(i.e. account holders') login names and passwords, so I think there aren't more advantage of using OAuth than basic-auth.
