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by chrismear 6079 days ago
OAuth is great, but the app doesn't actually say what it's going to do with my Twitter account. Developers especially are wary of handing over access to their accounts (OAuth or not), so it might be good to summarise what your app will post before making the user authenticate.
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Strongly agreed. "First, you'll need to login." Actually, first, I need to be told what this app does.
Haha, point taken. I always error (literally) on the side of conciseness. I'll add more verbage.

I added better messaging and error handling since Twitter seems to be really flakey this morning.

*err, not error
I did not know that! Seriously. May I recall all the times I've misused "error".
Yep, you may :D
"verbage" ~= verbiage?
Is there a big difference with just using a hook like this one? http://gitorious.org/tweetthegit
Not necessarily. Setting up the hook on GitHub's end lets you not worry about having the proper hook set up on your laptop (I guess).
Thanks, added some more verbage and error handling.