Today a few users have commented on the inability to join the site via our handy dandy twitter OAuth magic button thingy on the login screen. For those of you who don’t know/care what OAuth is, essentially it allows third party apps like FlockPoker use social networks like Twitter without demanding that the user login to the third-party site, thereby giving up their twitter passwords to potentially shady internet underbelly types. In my opinion A GREAT IDEA! I hate having to give up my Twitter User name and password to non-twitter sites. It just don’t feel right. In any case, I recall much toil and trouble integrating this very powerful feature into flock… much coffee and sleepless nights were part of the integration. Finally after getting it in there, the alpha users started to happily join in on the good times.
But wait. True to twitter’s fashion, the OAuth feature has now been disabled, as indicated by a beautifully rendered, neo-retro bird eying a bug. (presumably alluding to twitter’s desire to consume this huge feature fail.)
I can only assume that they are working on the problem, and will give it a couple days before I switch the app back to twitter login mode. boo.
Twitter, we love you. Just stop being so damn volatile.
