Another question. Is OAuth being required for new apps?
On Aug 17, 8:13 am, netlatch <netla...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am planning a new Twitter app and I am seriously considering not > using the OAuth API this time. Since I launched my last new app about > four weeks ago, it has been down for about 25% of the time. Since my > users use OAuth and Twitter to sign in on, the app is broken. It makes > me look very bad, especially when Twitter itself is up. It seems that > the developers who use OAuth should be somehow be exempt from the > cutting knife since you know who we are. But not so, we look like a > bunch of buffoons. Its the apps that don't use OAuth but continue to > require a users credentials that stay up. This is backwards. > > That said, is there any reason to continue using OAuth in this > environment in the future? Are you guys planning anything to make > OAuth users exempt each time a DDoS attack occurs? > > I also requested to be white-listed when I launched several weeks ago > but I have not heard back. If I were white-listed would my app be up > now? > > Thanks, > Pete