> Auth'ing Twitter using a user/pass meant that I could add Twitter support to Blogabond in 20 minutes. Reading Twitter's oAuth instructions took longer than th

> Auth'ing Twitter using a user/pass meant that I could add Twitter support to Blogabond in 20 minutes. Reading Twitter's oAuth instructions took longer than that. With all due respect; I wrote a library for Kohana PHP which allowed Twitter to be used as a login in about an hour. If I'd just been integrating it would have been faster. The beauty of Oauth is that it conforms to a specification - so any Oauth library for whatever language your working with will co-operate with Twitter. I'd argue that the ease of implementation means that even if it saves you from one in a thousand chance of that headache it's worth it :)