It won't be available for testing this week, but should be available before the end of the month. I'd definitely encourage you not to launch on it, though, as it will be a beta.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 08:16, Richie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > do you have any updates on when OAuth is available? > > Currently I'm doing the finishing touches on a new service and would > love to let the users choose OAuth for authentication instead of > requiere them to give me their secret pw. I'm experienced in using > OAuth so I expect to get it working in a couple of hours. > > Do you think Twitter will enable OAuth this week or should I start my > service with user/pw-authentication first? > > > Richard > > > On Nov 27, 12:38 am, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As I don't know the entire schedule of our UX team, I can't. I would >> say less than a month and closer to a week by far, but please don't >> hold me to that. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 15:41, Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Nov 24, 5:05 pm, "Alex Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> We're currently waiting on our User Experience team to put the final >> >> touches on a BETA release of ourOAuthsupport. It's going to have >> >> bugs, to be sure, but we should have it out there soon. >> >> > Could you give us a time estimate? In a week? A month? >> >> > Amir >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:53, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> > On 24 Nov 2008, at 15:13, fastest963 wrote: >> >> >> >> A better alternative would be to just create an API key for >> >> >> every user. Instead of entering username/password, they would enter >> >> >> their secret API key? >> >> >> > This is far less secure thanOAuthand is actually not much better than >> >> > requiring a username and password. >> >> >> > One of the core benefits ofOAuthis the ability to be very specific >> >> > regarding what each authorised application is allowed to do, on a per >> >> > application basis. It also allows you to selectively revoke the >> >> > permissions >> >> > of any specific application without needing to ask or even tell the >> >> > application about it. To do this with the API key system you effectively >> >> > need to re-authorise every app you use when you want to block just one >> >> > of >> >> > them. No real difference between this and having to change your >> >> > password. >> >> >> > I would much prefer that the guys (and gals) at Twitter concentrate on >> >> > gettingOAuthproperly implemented (which is harder than it sounds) than >> >> > their attention gets diverted by developers too impatient to wait for >> >> > the >> >> > right solution to the problem. >> >> >> > -Stut >> >> >> > -- >> >> >http://stut.net/ >> >> >> -- >> >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
