Comments on: Flickr, Twitter, OAuth: A Secret History

By: Oh, Sugar! » Flickr Should Have Built Instagram. But They Didn’t. Here’s Why.

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:45:33 +0000

[...] This is clearly a pain point for Elliot-McCrea as he was instrumental in creating the OAuth standard that Twitter and many other service now use to allow for third-party link-ups. So Flickr and Twitter linking up via OAuth should have happened right away, right? Nope. According to Elliot-McCrea, it took about two years — something which he detailed here. [...]

By: philgo

philgo — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:11:43 +0000

So why exactly did it took so long ? Y! Paranoids ?

By: bucabay

bucabay — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:13:59 +0000

Thats a long time, 2 years. So you guys really invented Oauth for Flickr2Twitter? Interesting.

By: David King

David King — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:41:44 +0000

I'm just writing my own OAuth provider and am following a trail that seems most active about half-a-year ago, very interesting to read about the storm that predates the calm we're in!