Private Twitter Account

[jufemaiz]

Just want to say that this is a fantastic little app you've got going on here.

One problem exists though, and that's in relation to private twitter accounts.

When running the "loadtweets.php" page I get hit with the response:
"Not authorized"

Thoughts on how to integrate the Twitter API into this?

[graulund]

This requires adding an OAuth client which complicates things a lot, so there's unfortunately no support for it at the moment.

[jufemaiz]

Hi Andy,
definitely understand the issues at hand, and perhaps its not in scope yet - but possibly a combo of roadmap and comment on the "how to" page?

Cheers,
Joel

[meltingice]

Just to follow up...

While it wouldn't be too hard to add OAuth into Tweetnest, the problem is that every user that wants to install and use it will have to register on the Twitter developer site for their own application OAuth credentials, which does add more complexity for sure.

[jufemaiz]

Oh I agree - no need to say that it's in scope yet - just making comment that part of the roadmap (earmarked "future" without implementation timeframe) could be a good way of highlighting limitations of thapp.

I'll have a looksie at a form perhaps?

[graulund]

Actually, early versions of the app had abraham's PHP OAuth library built-in (getting list of retweets required authentication), but yes, having to register on the Twitter developer site was what made it so messy to install and I was relieved to find that there was a newly added option to the Twitter API that allowed new-school RTs to become part of the stream.

UI-wise, it shouldn't be too much of a problem though, as long as it's obvious that it doesn't need to be set if you don't have a private account.

[jufemaiz]

@andy: agreed. It'd be part of the install path.

Private account -> add step for OAuth setup; otherwise continue as normal?