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Does Twitter support credential delegation? How about Facebook? Reddit? Instagram? Medium? Other random CMSes the MP might push content to, for op eds, newslett

Does Twitter support credential delegation? How about Facebook? Reddit? Instagram? Medium? Other random CMSes the MP might push content to, for op eds, newsletters, etc? All these systems start with the assumption that the "author" is a single account. Delegation is an edge-case they may or may not support, and they might all support it differently. Using a single PC, you don't have to use any of the special-case logic. You're back on the happy path: you do everything the same way you always do, and it all just works. There's also a lock on the resource: if someone else is at the PC, you can't be making conflicting responses to the same correspondence.

zaarn 9y ago
>Does Twitter support credential delegation? How about Facebook? Reddit? Instagram? Medium? Other random CMSes the MP might push content to, for op eds, newsletters, etc? Yes, you can find this special delegation by looking up the specific OAuth API. OAuth access usually limits what the other can do, some providers give you access to logs and you can limit and review scopes on each access token.
- Spivak 9y ago
  This isn't delegation of access to other people, this is delegation of identity to applications. Someone with your API token is still you -- just with restricted permissions. Until one can go into their Twitter account and create completely separate sub-accounts below their own with different emails and passwords people are going to share credentials.
  - zaarn 9y ago
    You can delegate to applications which other people are using, I don't see why that should be a problem. Plus an API token is more trackable than just sharing your password. It would be an improvement over current.
zifnab06 9y ago
Twitter has tweetdeck. Facebook has pages (and I've been told something similar works for high profile accounts).
- mschuster91 9y ago
  > Twitter has tweetdeck. Tweetdeck is, sorry, crap. At least compared to the web site or the apps. Both in UX and functionality terms. To make it worse the official Twitter Android/iphone app does not allow delegation at all, and third-party clients can't access lots of the API (media in DMs, polls, all the analytics stuff which is really relevant for e.g. agencies).

zaarn 9y ago

>Does Twitter support credential delegation? How about Facebook? Reddit? Instagram? Medium? Other random CMSes the MP might push content to, for op eds, newsletters, etc? Yes, you can find this special delegation by looking up the specific OAuth API. OAuth access usually limits what the other can do, some providers give you access to logs and you can limit and review scopes on each access token.

Spivak 9y ago
This isn't delegation of access to other people, this is delegation of identity to applications. Someone with your API token is still you -- just with restricted permissions. Until one can go into their Twitter account and create completely separate sub-accounts below their own with different emails and passwords people are going to share credentials.
- zaarn 9y ago
  You can delegate to applications which other people are using, I don't see why that should be a problem. Plus an API token is more trackable than just sharing your password. It would be an improvement over current.

zifnab06 9y ago

Twitter has tweetdeck. Facebook has pages (and I've been told something similar works for high profile accounts).

mschuster91 9y ago
> Twitter has tweetdeck. Tweetdeck is, sorry, crap. At least compared to the web site or the apps. Both in UX and functionality terms. To make it worse the official Twitter Android/iphone app does not allow delegation at all, and third-party clients can't access lots of the API (media in DMs, polls, all the analytics stuff which is really relevant for e.g. agencies).