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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 a
by chrismear 17y 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.
- isamuel 17y agoStrongly agreed. "First, you'll need to login." Actually, first, I need to be told what this app does.
- jmathai 17y agoHaha, 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.
- papachito 17y agoIs there a big difference with just using a hook like this one? http://gitorious.org/tweetthegit http://gitorious.org/tweetthegit
- jmathai 17y agoNot 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).
- karanbhangui 17y ago*err, not error
- jmathai 17y agoI did not know that! Seriously. May I recall all the times I've misused "error".
- karanbhangui 17y agoYep, you may :D
- dualogy 17y ago"verbage" ~= verbiage?
- jmathai 17y agoThanks, added some more verbage and error handling.