OAuth will be available as a private beta shortly. Even when it's deployed, OAuth does not stop a malicious website from collecting user credentials and taking action on behalf of a user. Users still must judge which sites are trustworthy.
All access to the Twitter API, authenticated or unauthenticated, is presently free. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:32, Gustavo Melo <pipoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Guys, Alex and Matt, > Let's imagine that I'm a bad person and have depevoped a very attractive > application for Twitter and a lot of people like to use it. For > authentication the users have to type their login and password, right? I'm > able to store those logins and passwords and make bad use of them. I've read > that exists the OAuth, is it already working? How does the Twitter's process > of authentication works? Is it free? > > Best Regards -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
