Comments on: Twitter can has OAuth?

By: Christian Scholz

Christian Scholz — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:15:40 +0000

That’s indeed great news and the huge respond as well. I also wanted to note that of course OAuth does not directly prevent phishing it stop the bad educating of people that giving out your password to other services is an OK thing to do. Of course it is not and might make it easier for phishers.

Unfortunately though too much of this bad idea is already in people’s heads and it might be hard to get it out there again but nevertheless having OAuth now is better than nothing.

Which I now would wish for is that Twitter would remove that password antipattern page from the Find people tab and replace it with calls to some contacts API using OAuth or at least a similar mechanism. This of course also goes for other sites (among which also was Plaxo at least when I last checked which very much surprised me).

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:54:30 +0000

It’s about freaking time!!!

By: Martin May

Martin May — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:16:09 +0000

Alex, I’ve emailed you. We’d love to get this in asap.

Best,
Martin
brightkite.com

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:38:27 +0000

Alex (won’t read this): A friend of mine, @soldoutactivist, can’t get in now because he’s a small developer and didn’t find out within the first 2 hours. People who don’t develop, like @factoryjoe, got in. That’s interesting!

By: Alex Payne

Alex Payne — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:05:57 +0000

BrightKite and anyone else who runs an existing, widely-used Twitter app or site can email us at any time to get into the beta. The value of getting these apps switched over to OAuth is high, and we’re not gonna be sticklers about it

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:27:14 +0000

Yes, I didn’t sign up for it because I didn’t think I’d have a use for it. I really contemplated before signing up, because I knew slots would be limited.

I feel for the new developers, or those who are working on small projects, forced out by people who only want to fart around with it and not actually utilize the service. I’m hoping BrightKite made it in, but since I didn’t see them tweeting to that effect, I’m guessing not. Sad!

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:26:32 +0000

Yeah, it is promising that they appear to have had such a large response, I just hope I don’t miss out. I didn’t find out until it was already “closed” because on this side of the world I was enjoying my Saturday morning sleep in. Hopefully if I’ve missed out on the private beta, the public one won’t be far behind, because I’d really love to be able to add OAuth to Hahlo 4

By: Lachlan Hardy

Lachlan Hardy — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:15:37 +0000

It’s worth point that applications for the private beta are already closed – in under two hours – due to the immense response from the API developer community. Very promising!