Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients
by pilif on Thursday March 07, 2013 @06:35AM
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Yes. And that's the point of the disclosure.
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Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients
by RockyMcNuts on Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:31AM
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Anyone know what are the API limits for these keys? Is Twitter really favoring this key, or is that hypothetical?
Of course, you still have to log in as a user, and Twitter could blacklist accounts that use this key on non-Twitter apps, which are going to have a lot of 'tells' and a specific signature in patterns of how they use the API.
(Twitter could even take advantage of that by hiding a code in a usage pattern, kind of like the POW who blinked in Morse code when he was put on TV)
Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients
by ceejayoz on Thursday March 07, 2013 @10:32AM
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> Is Twitter really favoring this key, or is that hypothetical?
In at least one way, yes. New third-party Twitter clients are limited to 100k users, but Twitter's official clients are unlimited. If those clients built in a "use your own authentication token" UI, you could put your official client's tokens in and work around that limit.