I'm doing desktop apps and I think the PIN workflow is just fine as is. If there are security reasons why something else is needed, I can see changing it. But it's no big deal for me to fire up a browser, push the "allow" button, double-click on a PIN, and then CTL-C / CTL- SHIFT-V into a Konsole window. ;-)
On Jan 11, 11:01 pm, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > > As it stands, developers who have relatively new desktop apps are > > penalized by having updates from their app say 'from web'. Older Basic > > Auth desktop clients continue to enjoy a link back to the client web > > site with a 'from app' link. > > ... > > > I understand Twitter is trying to force people to use OAuth, but that > > won't happen in a meaningful way until OAuth is reliable, has a truly > > usable workflow (PIN method isn't it), and can work well with other > > services (Twitpic, yfrog, etc). We aren't there yet. > > i'm trying to gather use cases around OAuth to help it make sense for more > people to use it -- as it stands, we are not going to allow the source > parameter to be set in new applications unless they come from OAuth. so, > please help me out! > > is the reliability of OAuth an actual concern? do you have a suggestion as > to what you would like to see other than the PIN workflow? additionally, > we're actively working on a "delegation" method for integration with other > services. > > -- > Raffi Krikorian > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi