as i am new to this world request u regarding fetchig another usrs time line>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:30:55 -0800> Subject: Re: Fetching user_timeline on
twitter> From: d.lifehac...@gmail.com> To:
twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com> > > Naveen,> > If you follow the
protected person on Twitter (and they allow it), you> can then fetch their
updates by logging in with that account.> > This is one way to make it work w/o
requesting their username and> password. > > I have some basic questions (I am
still learning this world) regarding> > fetching another user's timeline...
>
> > 1. If basic authentication is a must to get the feed
for "protected> > updates", then does that mean that a third party website that
purports> > to fetch a user's timeline needs to store the user's id and
password> > to repeatedly provide these parameters as part of basic auth while>
> fetching the timeline? Is that what sites such as friendfeed do? Or is> >
there a way to perform a one time login and then somehow use a user> > specific
credential on a long term basis?> >> > 2. When twitter moves to using oauth,
will there be a way for other> > friend> > networks to continuously be able to
fetch a twitter user's feed after> > first time Oauth based authorization by
using the user specific token> > on a long-term basis?> >> > Naveen
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