The way I learned that the Twitter API has stopped accepting basic authentication is that my Twinbox stopped working. After using my browser to confirm that Twitter is actually running and my account is seeing tweets, I requested that Twinbox perform an immediate refresh in Outlook, That’s when I observed the Twitter-originated message that said basic authentication is no longer supported.
I was able to remedy the situation by downloading the latest version of Twinbox. Twinbox simply started working again the next time I opened Outlook. I assume that whatever connection for OAuth access was needed was handled automatically based on my already having authorized Twinbox as a Twitter connection.
Since that seemed almost too easy, I noticed, in my re-animated Twitter stream, that Windows Live Writer has a plug-in that will generate Twitter notifications when I make a blog post. The Twitter Notify plug-in is reported to be updated to connect to Twitter via OAuth and we will see how that works out.
I am still frustrated in having the Windows Live Writer Zemanta plug-in recognize my personal Zemanta profile, so I wonder if there is going to be a similar issue with the Twitter Notify plug-in. We’ll soon see.
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