That's not correct. Updates posted to Twitter via Basic Auth always appear with a source of "From Web" (unless the application in question was "grandfathered in"). Otherwise, it's not possible to impersonate another application via Basic Auth.
On Jul 1, 9:34 am, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: Using basic auth it is already possible to use any > source and "impersonate" another application so not much is changing > here except better security for web applications.