Twitter OAuth - worth implementing yet ?

[funkyspider]

I want my app to be twitter enabled. I only want to post tweets, not retrieve etc. I've been investigating basic vs OAuth twitter authentication. It seems that OAuth is not that widely used at the moment although I notice there's a plugin framework available over at github. Claims that twitter will discontinue basic auth seem to have been around since mid 2009 with no further word on it happening.

Is it worth implementing OAuth in my app, has anyone implemented it and is it more complicated than just pompting for twitter user/pass. I've seen screenshots of web apps which ask for permissions, require generated PIN input etc, but that may have been early beta's.

Thanks

[funkyspider]

It seems the browserless xauth method is the way to go if you use OAuth

Twitter API Wiki / Twitter REST API Method: oauth access_token for xAuth

Just have to work out how to implement that through the iPhone API

[funkyspider]

Well I've implemented OAuth using bengottlieb plugin code from github. It will do for the proof of concept app, was fairly easy to implement.

One question for anyone else who's used this code - Once OAuth has been granted by the user the user/pass is never prompted for again. How would I log out of twitter allowing the user to log in as a different account ?

[lionfly]

Originally Posted by funkyspider

Well I've implemented OAuth using bengottlieb plugin code from github. It will do for the proof of concept app, was fairly easy to implement.

Hi there, currently I used

NSURL *twitURL=[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://username:password@twitter.com/statuses/update.xml"];

to send tweets directly to my own twitter account, and will need a Twitter login pop-up login window in the future. But I do not want to use the MGTwitterEngine, which seems too big for just a login check.

So I am interested in your Oauth+bengottlieb way. Does it pop up a twitter login window, and allow or refuse according to the username/password info, then come back to your app?

Could you show a good link for this please? Thanks.

[iphonemobdev]

Originally Posted by funkyspider

Well I've implemented OAuth using bengottlieb plugin code from github. It will do for the proof of concept app, was fairly easy to implement.

One question for anyone else who's used this code - Once OAuth has been granted by the user the user/pass is never prompted for again. How would I log out of twitter allowing the user to log in as a different account ?

Hello Friend,

Can you please share you code with us so we can easily implement OAuth into iPhone application.

[rrichar]

I have a Tab Bar App program. For one of my tabs I want it to get post from my twitter account so it can post news announcements meetings and events. Can someone PM me with some help. I don't need the users to login.