twitter升级验证方式了！

一直由于国情所在，我们都不能真正进入CCTV上经常报道的这个twitter的网站，群众的智慧虽然无限，大家一直使用着各种各样的API，或者第三方软件，但从昨天开始，相信大家都发现自己的小小API，不好用了吧，我的手机与电脑上一直在使用原来的GAE上的API，由于自己技术有限，只能使用大牛们贡献的API代码搭建，但现在这个局面发展不下去了，不是因为那墙升级，而是twitter真的动手升级了验证机制，，，，相信这是为了让twitter更安全的重要升级，twitter也知道自己的这次升级会对用户产生比较大的影响，所以发了邮件通知大家，我收到邮件正文如下：

Hi @jarodlee,

Over the coming weeks, we will be making two important updates that will impact how you interact with Twitter applications. We are sending this notice to all Twitter users to make sure you are aware of these changes.

What are applications?

There are over 250,000 applications built using the Twitter API. To use most applications, you first authorize the application to access your Twitter account, after which you can use it to read and post Tweets, discover new users and more. Applications come in many varieties, including desktop applications likeTweetDeck,Seesmic, orEchoFon, websites such asTweetMeme,fflick, orTopsy, or mobile applications such asTwitter for iPhone,Twitter for Blackberry, orFoursquare.

Update 1: New authorization rules for applications

Starting August 31, all applications will be required to use “OAuth” to access your Twitter account.

What's OAuth?

• OAuth is a technology that enables applications to access Twitter on your behalf with your approval without asking you directly for your password.
• Desktop and mobile applications may still ask for your password once, but after that request, they are required to use OAuth in order to access your timeline or allow you to tweet.

What does this mean for me?

• Applications are no longer allowed to store your password.
• If you change your password, the applications will continue to work.
• Some applications you have been using may require you to reauthorize them or may stop functioning at the time of this change.
• All applications you have authorized will be listed athttp://twitter.com/settings/connections.
• You can revoke access to any application at any time from the list.

Update 2:t.coURL wrapping

In the coming weeks, we will be expanding the roll-out of our link wrapping servicet.co, which wraps links in Tweets with a new, simplified link. Wrapped links are displayed in a way that is easier to read, with the actual domain and part of the URL showing, so that you know what you are clicking on. When you click on a wrapped link, your request will pass through the Twitter service to check if the destination site is known to contain malware, and we then will forward you on to the destination URL. All of that should happen in an instant.

You will start seeing these links on certain accounts that have opted-in to the service; we expect to roll this out to all users by the end of the year. When this happens, all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with at.coURL.

What does this mean for me?

• A really long link such ashttp://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048might be wrapped ashttp://t.co/DRo0trjfor display on SMS, but it could be displayed to web or application users asamazon.com/Delivering-or as the whole URL or page title.
• You will start seeing links in a way that removes the obscurity of shortened links and lets you know where each link will take you.
• When you click on these links from Twitter.com or a Twitter application, Twitter will log that click. We hope to use this data to provide better and more relevant content to you over time.

Thanks for reading this important update. Come and check what's new athttp://twitter.com.