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sh1mmer on Nov 25, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making Twitter Smarter

Their strategy isn't really very open though. With heavy rate limiting and lack of a decent auth mechanism it's pretty sucky. I really don't like having to store a user's password.

Once twitter have OAuth and XMPP I'll think of them as open.

ivankirigin on Nov 25, 2008 [–]

I thought it was Twitter that made XMPP a popular topic?

And can't you just use Gnip? http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/18/twitter-plays-nice-xmpp...

arockwell on Nov 25, 2008 | [–]

The xmpp stream is not publicly available anymore.

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