there will be much more information about this soon. in general, the API for browser-less apps is designed for applications or environments that are unable to bring up a web browser -- desktop clients, presumably, can still bring up a web page? either way, the benefit of the web page is that you give the user a sense of security that their twitter username and password is safe and unshared.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Isaiah Carew <isa...@me.com> wrote: > From the announcement I read here: > > http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/09/twitter-le-web-2009/ > > > 3) Anyone making OAuth requests to Twitter is soon getting an increased rate > limit (10x) – about to launch API for browser-less apps, and starting Basic > Auth decprecation in June 2010. > > Is there more info about this available. I'd love to know more about the > "API for browser-less apps" -- specifically: > 1) Will this be appropriate for desktop clients? > 2) When? > Thanks, > isaiah > http://twitter.com/isaiah > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
