So earlier today the nice folks over at twitter figured it was a good time to change all the authentication to oauth … they might have announced it all over the place .. but it never catched my attention
The onlything that did catch my attention was that after not having ued pidgin for about 2 weeks I didn’t have access to twitter anymore.
I`m using the purple-microblog plugin and the default version of that plugin in Fedora 12 wasn’t really up2date. The plugin supports OAuth as of 3.0 which was released ages ago.
As an opensource evangelist I probably should do so .. Crossposting from Identi.ca to Twitter works… but there is one big thing that’s blocking me to do this by default and that’s a bug in microblog-purple which currently blocks me from using Identi.ca in Pidgin. Which is what I use to Tweet ..
As afteral .. Twitter is nothing more than world wide searchable irc , isn’t it ? And I want them all from 1 interface, irc, jabber, twitter, …