I was talking with a friend last night and some of the Twitter Bots I wrote in the past came up (i.e. @StupidBot) and I noticed some odd behavior. First, they seemed broken.
I started to try and fix them today and found out basic authentication has been deprecated and can no longer be used since August 16, 2010.
But wait?
I noticed some of my bots posted after that.
It worked
August 16-31
September 1,14,28
October 21-22
November 5-8
August and September 1 they probably didn't turn it off at the deadline. Now the rest of the updates... the September 14,28 are 2 weeks apart exactly. Maybe some type of update/test? After that, I cannot explain. There is no obvious pattern, it seems to turn on for different lengths of time.
For now though, I need to go back and figure out OAuth and re-write a bunch of my applications so they start working again. :(
Anyone know any more about this? Any theories?
