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.
Over 1.5 decade ago, a bunch of us were addicted to irc, I lived on channels such as #coders, #nlcoders, #demoscene, sneaked in on #vlaanderen to see when the Leuven locals were heading to the pub, then started joining multiple Linux and Open Source related channels around 94…
Then some weirdos had an alternative way of chatting ICQ, then the folks from Redmond reinvented the wheel… Luckily XMPP arrived and Jabber became the open alternative, but still all of this time irc stayed
This one has been sitting in the drafts for too long, but frankly there’s not much I have to add.
Twitter is acting weird , we all know that .. but the following movie really beats everything.
Yes that’s right what you are seeing is me logging into my twitter account, checking my @krisbuytaert
messages and seeing the @vti messages and then even taking full control of their (in the mean while deleted) account.
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, …
As I don’t really use twitter apart to microblog but rather as an Instatn Messaging tool (why those people don’t use IRC or Jabber remains a mistery to me wheel.reinvent :( )
I figured I could abuse it to announce posts on my blog, lots of people seem to be doing this so there had to be an easy way to auto publish them ..
The wonderful Drupal community seemed to have the same idea and therefore created the Twitter Module
When your favourite ex yahoo employee and mysql guru blogs about a “dns problem” and how he solved it using Twitter you can only smile ;) At last some useful use for Twitter .. when it’s up at least ..