Twitter Use – The New Update Promises Better Use – Do You Agree?

Posted on September 2, 2010
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Twitter just notified it’s followers that they are updating the way that software and online web site services uses their programming platform to log in on your behalf when you allow access to those services.

Is may be bad news for a lot of applications – maybe even some you have grown accustomed to. These include applications like TweetDeck, Seesmic, or EchoFon, as well websites such as TweetMeme, fflick, and Topsy. Mobile applications you may know of that may be affected are Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Blackberry, Foursquare and thousands more.

The better use of twitter must have to do with the workload of their servers, if you ask me :-) Twitter oauth is the tool that all services and twitter applications now have to use, in order to keep being connected to your twitter account. And you will be able to see all apps that connects to your twitter, and disconnect anyone with one click :-)

Among this update email I also read that twitter is launching their own link cloaking service – it’s called t.co and twitter promise that it is going to make use of tracking – so they may give you a report in your member’s area where you can see the stats of all the traffic through your twitter URL’s.

I don’t know how this will affect you and your twitter experience, but I look forward to twitter expanding it’s features. Go twitter! :-)

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