Just read from this blog post (http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/09/ tech-behind-new-twittercom.html), that new Twitter.com is a client to Twitter API.
I can't help but wonder if, 1) Twitter.com uses an OAuth app called "web"? 2) Does the site generate OAuth access tokens for every user from their raw credentials? I assume you guys don't have exclusive access to basic auth :) -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en