Twim 1.18 – Countdown to Twitter’s OAuth Switch

Posted on by

Twitter is going to disable the basic authentication method from their API. This means that the old versions of Twim will stop working. Most likely there are quite a few client apps out there which will stop working when that happens. Check the countdown site for remaining days: countdowntooauth.com

In the future Twitter will support OAuth authentication and luckily there is also xAuth support too which is simplified version of OAuth. xAuth works great for non-desktop apps like Twim. I just implemented xAuth support to Twim.

When you post a new status from Twim you’ll see that the status was posted from TwimGo app. This is because there was already another app register with Twim name. I might do a MeeGo version of the app so then the new name matches the platform well :)

This version also has support for Twitter Lists.

You can download the latest version of Twim from these links:

  • Mary

    I uninstalled & reinstalled the new 1.18 version to work with the new oauth that rolled out 8/31, but when I sign into twim there is no way to auth thru twitter & I just get a message that i could not be authenticated.

    help?

    I ran twim w/o any issues for quite some time now on my samsung until today with the new oauth process.

    Thanks.

  • http://www.flicoder.com Sergey

    Same here! Can’t log in!