Hi Ed, @Anywhere is an effort to provide a client-side authentication & authorization flow to Twitter REST API integrations: a simpler, more frictionless experience for common Twitter actions. While @Anywhere meets this criteria, there is obvious room for continued simplification, both for end-users and implementors. @Anywhere applications still require a developer to register an application and the end-user to make additional approvals for that application construct.
The "Twitter for Websites" arm of the Twitter Platform (Tweet Button, Follow Button, and Web Intents) provides integrators with even simpler solutions that don't require API keys. By utilizing the end user's logged in state, the gulf between the user's intention to act and the action being accomplished is bridged. While the Buttons, like @anywhere, use Javascript, the building blocks they use, Web Intents, provide perhaps the most atomic form of frictionless integration: simple URLs that can be linked from any web-enabled context, with or without Javascript. Web Intents and the Tweet & Follow Buttons are the best fit for a wide swath of integration points. Deeper integrations are still best serviced by server-side REST integrations or @Anywhere. @episod <http://twitter.com/episod> - Taylor Singletary On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:24 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky < zn...@borasky-research.net> wrote: > Now I'm getting curious about the road map for @anywhere and all the > miscellaneous Twitter plugins, especially for WordPress. Last year, when > Twitter announced @anywhere, I tried a couple of plugins before settling on > one. What I got from that was hovercards, tweet boxes and follow buttons. > > A few months later, I discovered that the trips to Twitter servers were > slowing down my blog's page loads, so I stopped using @anywhere. Since then, > there have been some other JavaScript tools from Twitter, and now this > "Follow Button." > > So I've put a follow button on my blog. So far it doesn't seem to be > slowing it down, but it's only been up a couple of hours. In any event, is > @anywhere "deprecated", in favor of the most popular single functions from > the collection, like follow buttons? Or are there always going to be > multiple "JavaScript / HTML widgets and gizmos" coming from Twitter that > users need to track? > > > -- > http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul > Erdos > > > > Quoting Arnaud Meunier <arn...@twitter.com>: > > Hey developers, >> >> Today we're launching the Follow Button! Similar to the Tweet Button, >> it's a new widget that lets users easily follow a Twitter account from >> any web page. The Follow Button has a single click follow experience, >> simple implementation model, and is configurable to fit the needs of >> your website. >> >> Read our announcement on the Twitter blog, and use the resources below >> to set up your own Follow Button: >> >> - Create a Follow Button here: >> http://twitter.com/about/resources/followbutton >> - Detailed documentation: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/follow_button >> >> We’ve also added a Javascript layer to our Buttons and Web Intents >> that makes it possible for you to detect how users are interacting >> with these tools, and to hook them up to your own web analytics. More >> details on: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/intents-events >> >> We're excited to see how you guys will implement the Follow Button. >> Let us know what you think, or if you have any questions. >> >> Arnaud / @rno >> >> -- >> Twitter developer documentation and resources: >> https://dev.twitter.com/doc >> API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi >> >> Issues/Enhancements Tracker: >> https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list >> Change your membership to this group: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk >> >> > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: https://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/twitter-development-talk
