i wonder how many other twitter projects got killed when they dropped basic auth. implementing oauth in an old one-off project that only uses one twitter account to access their api is just a pain in the ass.
i used to let people tweet messages to @going2rain and have them show up on the bottom of http://goingtorain.com/ in a random rotation, but the process of switching it over to oauth was just not worth the trouble so i disabled that functionality.
> implementing oauth in an old one-off project that only uses one twitter account to access their api is just a pain in the ass.
There's a way around it. IIRC, you just have to sign up for the developer account using the same credentials as your Twitter account, and it allows you to create a permanent key. It's been months since I did it, but the app I built still works.
i used to let people tweet messages to @going2rain and have them show up on the bottom of http://goingtorain.com/ in a random rotation, but the process of switching it over to oauth was just not worth the trouble so i disabled that functionality.