title: Twitter disabling basic authentication - what does this mean?
body: <p>According to apiwiki.twitter.com: "Basic authentication removal is going to occur on August 16, 2010" and their OAuth API will be the new method of authentication.</p>
  
  <p>I'm new to the Twitter API and I'm very unclear as to what this applies to. I'm trying to create a simple app to post to Twitter via a HTML form - do I have to use the OAuth system? Or is the OAuth system just for apps (as implied by <a href="http://dev.twitter.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dev.twitter.com/</a>).</p>
  
  <p>If I have to use it, then why the lack of official libraries and code samples from Twitter (for PHP all I see are links to inactive open source projects)?</p>
  
  <p>Does this mean that any twitter app/widget that isn't updated by August 16th will cease to work?</p>
  
  <p>What is wrong with authenticating via HTTPS and POST requests?</p>