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Twitter Applications and OAuth

If you are like most Twitter users, you have used use a third-party Twitter application to read or send Tweets. As of August 31, Twitter applications will all use OAuth, an authentication method that lets you use apps without them storing your password.

What does this mean for me? The move to OAuth will mean increased security and a better experience. Applications won’t store your username and password, and if you change your password, applications will continue to work.Read more…

My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter

On my second day at Twitter, I was writing documentation for the systems I was going to work on (to understand them better), and I realized that there was a method in the service’s API that should be exposed but wasn’t. I pointed this out to my engineering mentor, Steve Jenson (@stevej). I expected him to ignore me, or promise to fix it later. Instead, he said, “Oh, you’re right. What are you waiting for?Read more…

TweetDeck User Streams Preview: Open To All

I think it’s fair to say that the reaction to our User Streams Preview version of TweetDeck was extremely positive. TechCrunch called it “Crack for Real-time Web Junkies”. The Next Web summarised their experience succinctly as “Twitter in real tim…Read more…

Guillermo's Travels

Earlier this year, Guillermo, the TweetDeck bird, decided to take some of his well-earned holiday and travel to Majorca. He liked the beaches, the culture and the spoken language so much that he decided to bring some of this back to TweetDeck. Whi…Read more…

Tweet Button Bookmarklet: Share links from any page

Last week, we announced an easy-to-install and lightweight Tweet Button that allows publishers to make it easy for users to share a link to their content on Twitter. Thousands of sites have implemented the Tweet Button already. Read more…

Android TweetDeck One Week In

It seems like just yesterday we were using our top secret Android TweetDeck, sending mysterious test tweets and working everything into shape for a public release. Actually, it was about a week ago. Last Thursday we unleashed the first public beta…Read more…

Share Your Twitter Tale

Today we’re launching Twitter Tales - a growing set of articles that highlights creative individuals and businesses from all corners of the world that help make Twitter awesome. The examples of great Twitter use will also likely inspire others to use the service in innovative and interesting ways. Read more…

Pushing Our (Tweet) Button

Twitter is great for sharing interesting things you find on the web. In fact, close to a quarter of all Tweets include a link in them. Despite the high volume of sharing, there is plenty of room to make it easier. Copying and pasting, link shortening, and bouncing between browser tabs just to share a link in a Tweet is too much work.Read more…

TweetDeck on Android - Come And Get It!

You begged. You pleaded. You offered us all manner of enticements, some of which we think may be illegal in some countries. We took this to mean that you really wanted TweetDeck on your Android device, and we agreed!So without any further ado, we …Read more…

Introducing Fast Follow, and other SMS tips

We’ve always been big fans of trusty SMS messaging. In fact, sending a text was originally the only way users could tweet. This is why Tweets are 140 characters — they need to fit into a text message.

We value SMS because it’s simple, instant and universal. Recently, we’ve added a few new features to make Twitter even more useful with SMS.Read more…

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