However, the top 5 clients account for 82% of tweets and the top 10 account for over 90% of tweets. According to a study in August 2009 by Rapleaf two-thirds of tweets are updated using computers at. Up to a third of Twitter users are using 1900 different third-party apps. Twitter is fairly unique in that many people don’t actually access Twitter on the web to use the service. Tweetdeck Hint: Since Tweetdeck runs on Adobe Air, you may also have to download the latest version of Adobe Air AND the latest version of Tweetdeck. If your Twitter client has stopped working, go and download the latest version of the app. Third-party clients like Echofon, TweetDeck, Twitterrific, Seesmic, and Twitter for Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry, are already using OAuth, so you may not have to do anything. Twitter told developers way back in December 2009 about the move to Oauth and most of them have been expeditious in implementation. The move to OAuth may actually kill off some lazy third-party apps. So far sponsored tweets, some image hosting sites, iPhone apps and url shorteners have all become victims. The company is well-known for assisting some of its most successful third-party clients to commit Twittercide. This is not another Twitter third-party killing rampage. Your username and password will now reside on Twitter only, and you will have to provide your Twitter client with authorisation to access your Twitter account. In a nutshell, it’s a more secure method and should help to stem account hacks.
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