If you're developing a new application, you -must- use OAuth if you want the "From" line to display your application's name.
It used to work for Basic Auth, but Twitter disabled that. Applications that had been working when they disabled it were "grandfathered in", but apps created after that point must use OAuth to have access to this feature. On Aug 3, 6:47 am, Sam Street <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had this difficulty too, with the 'source' parameter being > ignored. > I recommend using OAuth which handles it all fine. I'm weary about > providing my password to apps these days > > On Aug 3, 6:49 am, Pek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > how do you set the from field when you tweet from the API. Right now > > mine says from API. I'd like it to say from [My Application] > > > I've set all the fields necessary from the apps settings
