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Twitter Seeking OAuth Beta Participants
CenterNetworks —
Twitter API lead Alex Payne has announced that the company is looking for people to be part of a beta test of the OAuth support for Twitter. OAuth is described as, "An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications."
Payne notes, "In the closed beta period, participants will be able to create and manage an unlimited number of OAuth applications. Any user will able to access these applications, but only participants will be able to create them. More documentation forthcoming."
There has been a lot of talk from developers who want ...
Twitter OAuth Spotted in the Wild
ReadWriteWeb —
Twitter OAuth - oft promised but lagging in delivery - had begun to take on a mythical status, leaving many to wonder if it would ever be released. Now, that naysaying could be coming to swift end. It appears that Twitter OAuth has been released into the wild as part of a limited beta.
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Why is this important? It means that Twitter applications now have a way to verify user identity without asking for a username and password. Those credentials remain the private property of the user - but he or she still gets access to the tool and his or her Twitter account. (For more on the topic, listen ...
Twitter’s OAuth Support Now In Public Beta
TechCrunch —
Twitter API Lead Alex Payne has just tweeted that OAuth support for third party applications is now in public beta. Support for the authentication protocol has been frequently requested for years, and was finally made available to a limited number of developers last month.
OAuth allows developers to create third party apps that can access a user’s account information without requiring them to hand over their login credentials. Before now, Twitter applications have required users to enter their usernames and passwords. This typically hasn’t been a problem (and most users haven’t seemed ...
