Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best practice for notifying users they need to re-authenticate before June 30th?

2011-06-22 Thread Ryan
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...


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Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best practice for notifying users they need to re-authenticate before June 30th?

2011-06-22 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
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.


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[twitter-dev] Re: Best practice for notifying users they need to re-authenticate before June 30th?

2011-06-22 Thread Ryan
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. 

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[twitter-dev] Re: Best practice for notifying users they need to re-authenticate before June 30th?

2011-06-21 Thread Orian Marx
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  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?

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