I had never given it much thought, but Twitter recommends I should follow myself. I guess it makes sense. I have similar tastes as me I follow the same type people as me People who follow me, might also be following me. (will this cause paranoia) I should keep up with what I am doing [...]
Did you know you can build your own custom Twitter interface? Since Twitter changed to 100% OAuth support you are now required to have a Twitter Application to post to Twitter. This can be seen with how a lot of the WordPress plugins work, which now require you to setup an application and save your [...]
Namecheap is at it again. Hosting a new Twitter Contest called Namecheap Bored at Work and Back to School Riddle Me This Contest!. Namecheap is giving away 3 MacBook Pro, 1 Apple iPad, or 1 Amazon Kindle. The contest is very similar to their past contests. This time the contest is made of riddles instead [...]
I am still seeing Tweets being posted “from API” and I can not see how this is possible using OAuth on Twitter. Basic authentication was to be turned off and only applications using OAuth should be working as of August 31, 2010. A Twitter Application using OAuth has to have a name, and this name [...]
If you use any API calls to Twitter you have until June 30th to make the switch to OAuth from Basic Authentication. It will be interesting to see how this changes the data flow in and out of Twitter. See Twitter Blog: Switching to OAuth Until recently I was still seeing a lot of Tweets [...]