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Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients by jasiek on Thursday March 07, 2013 @06:53AM (#5337181)
I think Apple will simply not permit applications that use these keys and are not official clients in the App Store. Looks like something that is pretty easy to automate.
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Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients by cbsmith on Thursday March 07, 2013 @07:05AM (#5337203)
You presume that one would use the keys on iPhone. No reason you couldn't run them on a Linux box in AWS...
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Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients by codeka on Thursday March 07, 2013 @07:04AM (#5337199)
I'm not sure why Apple would play police for Twitter, though.
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Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients by cryptoz on Thursday March 07, 2013 @09:10AM (#5337603)
Isn't Twitter integrated into Apple's mobile operating system? Such tight partnerships is plenty reason for them to play police for Twitter.
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Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients by fpgeek on Thursday March 07, 2013 @01:48PM (#5339352)
Yes and no. Apple wants to protect their Twitter partnership, but... Apple knows that there aren't any effective police in the park next door. So the question is whether Apple values their Twitter relationship enough that they're willing to cede most of the future energy and enthusiasm around third-party Twitter clients to Android.

It's possible, but I don't think it is at all an easy call.

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Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients by arethuza on Thursday March 07, 2013 @07:18AM (#5337236)
How would Apple know that the app uses these keys? If they run something similar to strings then all you have to do is store the keys in some kind of obfuscated form.
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Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients by interpol_p on Thursday March 07, 2013 @07:47AM (#5337310)
Right but as soon as the press find out, and they will, that developer account will be banned. Most devs won't see it as worth the risk.
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Re:Consumer key/secret for official Twitter clients by cathustler on Thursday March 07, 2013 @08:23AM (#5337429)
What responsibility does Apple have to Twitter except the notification center widget?
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