On Aug 31, 12:46 pm, Matt Harris <thematthar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Like many mobile applications Twitter for Android uses xAuth. In this > mode the user enters their username and password which is then sent to > Twitter for the OAuth credentials. Part of the agreement of granting > access to xAuth is that the application must not store the username > and password.
Ah hah! Ok, thanks, good to know. A lot of folks are tweeting right now about the end of password-based authentication. Maybe someone should tell them "not quite". -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
