Twitter had previously announced to kill basic authorization by June 30, but now this deadline has been delayed. Now, the application developers need to update their application and authorization system by August 16, 2010.
Twitter API engineering, Raffi Krikorian (@raffi) describes this as:
As you’ve all probably noticed, with the world cup going on, twitter is experiencing record load. because of this, we’re moving the OAuth switchover date to august 16, 2010.
We want to make sure that you all have calm waters to test your new codebases where you’re not dealing with whales, robots, and whatnot. with the world cup ending on July 11th, you will all have over a month’s time of calm waters and site stability to finish the switch over. also, with the vast majority of media providers already switched over to OAuth Echo, you now also have an additional month of time to work out your integrations with them.
starting on august 16 we’ll be ramping down the rate limits on basic auth roughly by 10 calls/hour/day ending on august 31st. on the 31st, you won’t be allowed to make any other basic auth calls. starting on august 31st, any basic auth request will get a HTTP 403 response back.
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