Because of the volume of traffic cause by the World Cup, Twitter have decided to delay the switching off of Basic Authentication until 16th August 2010. This is to give developers more time to test in a less 'overloaded' environment.
This gives me a bit more time for development and testing and here is the current status.
I found a plugin called mt-plugin-oauth-framework created by Akira Sawada of 6A Japan that does most of the heavy lifting for authorisation and includes a sample app to tweet from the blog dashboard. This plugin was initially written for MT5.x and requires you to delete some of the libraries in the exlib to work on MT4.x.
The application has been registered on Twitter (as MT-HashTag as the app name HashTag was already taken). This means that any tweets have via MT-HashTag in the meta data (see below)
I have a alpha version of the plugin working on The Composing Stick the only problem at the moment is that it needs my secret key to work, which should not be distributed for obvious reasons. Twitter is supposed to be fixing this soon (before 16th August soon) so there may be an additional step required to get the plugin working.
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