Twitter To Developers: Please Love Us Again (mashable.com)

Twitter wants to fix its relationship with developers, it said Thursday. The company, which sold its developer platform to Google earlier this year, said moving forward it intends to be more transparent with developers and provide them with more insight. From a report: While some continue to call the end of Twitter (and others gave up on the product years ago), the company is prioritizing more tools for developers in order to grow the site. "These efforts represent a massive new engineering and product investment in the future of the Twitter API platform, and in our developer ecosystem," Andy Piper, Twitter's staff developer advocate, wrote in a blog post announcement. One of the steps involves creating an easier to use service overall. Twitter offers several developer products, including free APIs, services from data analysis group Gnip, and the enterprise-level Twitter API product. Twitter plans to simplify its offerings by releasing one way to get access to the Firehouse (access to all tweets in real-time), one way to access Twitter search, and one access for account activity.

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Re:Will Twitter drop the "consumer secret"?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi, Ron Johnson here. I'm the Lead Senior Development Engineer here at Twitter.

We are moving away from the "shared secret" approach to the industry standard "username and password". You might be interested to know we never bothered updating older android clients to use OAuth anyway, so if you faked your authentication to say you were one of them you could always just use a password!

On behalf of the team here at Twitter, I'd like to share a heartfelt fuck you. Sincerely,

-Ron Johnson
Senior Tweet Development Engineering Specialist