They must have known that this was going to be discovered. We're developers. We like building, testing, and breaking stuff.
Unequal applications of the rules. Happens all the time. Months after you've disabled something at the request of Twitter, you find well- known services that do exactly the same thing with apparent impunity in a much worse form than you did. On Sep 13, 10:40 am, funkatron <funkat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Read on this post:http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/09/dear-twitter/ > > Tested just now:http://gist.github.com/577273 > > If I pass "source=twitterandroid", it appears to work on all API > methods. > > In light of basic auth being "disabled," why does this work? > > -- > Ed Finklerhttp://funkatron.com > @funkatron > AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com -- 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
