Twitter have said they are going to implement OAuth (which would solve this problem) on their API page. However, they have shown no progress to my knowledge of

Twitter have said they are going to implement OAuth (which would solve this problem) on their API page. However, they have shown no progress to my knowledge of doing this. It would be great for the community to push them towards it. Twitter seem to have been so busy fire fighting that a lot of interesting stuff has seemingly dropped off the roadmap (such as XMPP).