TWITTER VIEWS: Twitter Oauth

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Like anything else that uses Twitter, both of these web apps require you to login with your Twitter account via OAuth. WriteRack helps you Tweestorm. WriteRack starts off with a simple blank space for composing up to 30 tweets worth (4,200 characters The OAuth keys and secrets that official Twitter applications use to access users’ Twitter accounts have been leaked in a post to Github this morning. The consumer keys and secrets, which function similarly to a username and password, were posted for Logging into another site with your Google, Twitter, or Facebook account isn't just convenient; it's more secure than creating a new account, or entering your Google, Twitter, or Facebook password into a third-party site. That's where OAuth comes in. If they create a service that requires its own login account and password, users will clamor for an option to sign in using Google, Facebook, Twitter, or any other number of oAuth logins. And if they create a service and decide not to bother with their own 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 Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong. .

I have a few F# demos which use the Twitter APIs as simple examples of accessing online data interactively and working with it in F#. Recently, Twitter moved to require OAuth for accessing Twitter APIs on behalf of a user. Below is the F# code I A security hole in OAuth, the open-source protocol that acts as a "valet key" for users' log-in information, has led services like Twitter and Yahoo to temporarily pull their support, CNET News has learned. Some developers were dismayed when Twitter pulled The issue has to do with how Twitter uses the OAuth standard to authorize third-party apps, including desktop or mobile Twitter clients, to interact with user accounts through its API, Nicolas Seriot, a mobile applications developer and project manager at This week, Twitter’s OAauth keys leaked to Github. So what does that mean? Don’t panic. The consequences of a client application’s key being compromised are not as serious as user credentials being compromised. The risk associated with this breach is .