Most of this social network users access the service through applications made by tereceros. The twitter blog tells us that access through mobile devices is the main source of exchange of information.


From August 31 all applications accessing twitter that have not acutalizado authentication mechanism stopped working. If you notice that your application does not work we recommend that you upgrade to the latest version, if in any case still does not work to try searching for another client, it is important to be aware that the problems have nothing to do with your device.


While this change has generated several injuries leaving many users without operation was necessary and positive in the short and medium term, from now on applications do not have to store the user name and password, if at any time change the password to your twitter account, the application continues running. Likewise, if you want to revoke access to any applications you have just registered, go to the connection parameters section and make the corresponding change


All these changes have been made with the intention of improving privacy and security of users and combat spam. In notempo1320 welcome this change, migration to the new security settings we did it correctly when using the popular Python library Twitter in its latest version. For more information about this topic can go to the blog entry announcing the change twitter.