Twitter recently transitioned to OAuth, but the social network's implementation of the new authentication system has some serious flaws. Ars shows how easy it was to compromise the secret key of Twitter's own official client application for Android.
Expect to see an emphasis on the scholarly and research implications of the acquisition. I’m no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data. And I’m certain we’ll learn things that none of us now can even possibly conceive.
Current (beta) version is 0.9.19 (25 JUN 2009). Download instructions After installation set the application premissions for twibble as described in this post.
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