Question

A site I manage uses the my_twitter.php class simply to receive tweets from one certain account. As of a few hours ago this has stopped working, it displays a wrong username / password message while the credentials are correct.

On various websites I am reading about API problems but I’m not sure if the my_twitter class needs to be replaced with another one that uses OAuth, or will the problems be resolved and my_twitter start working again? That class is still listed as an official library by Twitter.

EDIT: turns out I do not need OAuth to just receive the latest tweet. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/show This link explains things well

Answer 1

This is from an email I received from Twitter this morning, titled ‘Update: Twitter Apps and You‘:

Update 1: New authorization rules for
applications

Starting August 31, all applications
will be required to use “OAuth” to
access your Twitter account.

What’s OAuth?

• OAuth is a technology that enables
  applications to access Twitter on your
  behalf with your approval without
  asking you directly for your password.
• Desktop and mobile applications may
  still ask for your password once, but
  after that request, they are required
  to use OAuth in order to access your
  timeline or allow you to tweet.

What
does this mean for me?

• Applications are no longer allowed to
  store your password.
• If you change
  your password, the applications will
  continue to work.
• Some applications
  you have been using may require you to
  reauthorize them or may stop
  functioning at the time of this
  change.
• All applications you have
  authorized will be listed at
  http://twitter.com/settings/connections.
• You can revoke access to any
  application at any time from the list.application at any time from the list.

So it does look like you need to find another library, that uses OAuth.