[twitter-dev] Re: Best practice for notifying users they need to re-authenticate before June 30th?
Would love to get some guidance from Twitter or any other developers as I know there are plenty of other 3rd party apps out there that are in similar situations. I don't want to come across as Spammish, but is it possible to Spam your authenticated users? Not sure if I have many alternatives other than just waiting for people to email me angrily/confused why the app is no longer working. Thats going to be fun! Can't wait for June 30th! :) At least the fix is easy enough as simply re-authenticating. -- 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
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best practice for notifying users they need to re-authenticate before June 30th?
If you currently have no contact at all with your users, I can see how it might be a problem. However, almost all other apps have a way to do this: by simply asking them on the website / app. For example: my own app is a desktop client and it simply checks for permission and asks for a re-authentication via a modal popup on startup. A webapp wouldn't need this because a user simply re-authenticates on each login. Tom On 6/22/11 8:31 PM, Ryan wrote: Would love to get some guidance from Twitter or any other developers as I know there are plenty of other 3rd party apps out there that are in similar situations. I don't want to come across as Spammish, but is it possible to Spam your authenticated users? Not sure if I have many alternatives other than just waiting for people to email me angrily/confused why the app is no longer working. Thats going to be fun! Can't wait for June 30th! :) At least the fix is easy enough as simply re-authenticating. -- 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
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best practice for notifying users they need to re-authenticate before June 30th?
In our situation, once the users configure their accounts during the initial setup, there is no need to revisit our website/app unless they need to change some of their settings. If they have not visited our website between June 15th - June 30th, then unfortunately their GroupTweet accounts will stop working momentarily until they wonder what is going on and take the initiative to log into our site and check their settings. Just trying to be proactive and avoid any sort of interruption at all... -- 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-dev] Re: Best practice for notifying users they need to re-authenticate before June 30th?
I think this has the potential to end up getting you blocked for spamming. You've identified a real problem with the impending OAuth change I think. Would be good to hear a recommendation directly from Twitter as to how to handle your type of situation. On Jun 21, 7:12 pm, Ryan craft.r...@gmail.com wrote: I operate a Twitter web app (GroupTweet) that effectively runs in the background once users activate it for the first time. The only reason they would need to log back into our site is to change their settings or configuration. Our app directly relies on the ability to read Direct Messages, so its crucial users re-authenticate otherwise the service will be useless until they do. We don't collect email addresses. So my question is, how are other people notifying their users about the need to re-authenticate before June 30th? Is there a way to create a script that sends @mentions to each of my authenticated users or would this be blocked due to potential for spam abuse? -- 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
