China's policy didn't just recently change, Twitter's did. So it is Twitter telling us that we may not be able to support China and other firewall blocked countries any longer. It is, after all, within Twitter's power to continue to support Basic Auth. It is their conscious decision not to, despite the significant negative ramifications being brought to their attention.
In an earlier comment from Twitter: " twitter.com is trying to drive people to understand and discover what's going on in the world." No one in the world needs to "understand and discover what's going on" more than the people of these communist-block countries that otherwise see only what their governments allow them to see. It is unfortunate that Twitter plans to turn their back on them. Then again, what's a billion people here or there?... On Apr 25, 9:04 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is not twitter telling you it is China. > > -- > Little androids dreaming of Nexus Ones compiled this text. > > On Apr 25, 2010 6:53 PM, "Dewald Pretorius" <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Raffi, > > We really need a resolution for this issue before Basic Auth is > deprecated. > > It sounds as if Twitter is telling developers of web apps that they > cannot provide service to Chinese users, and other users behind > firewalls that block access to twitter.com. But that can't be right, > can it? > > On Apr 25, 4:49 am, jaronbarends <jaronbare...@gmail.com> wrote:> I moved my > web based app from ba... > > This issue has discussed in this group before here: > > https://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_threa... > > > > > Being a frontend developer, I may have misunderstood the outcome of > > that discussion (I certain... > > -- > Subscription > settings:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en
