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dossy 13th Nov 2008
In order to analyze your @replies, I need to make a web service request to Twitter, which requires your user name and password.

Uh, not really. You could have used search.twitter.com - except you wouldn't see replies from users with protected timelines.

This all goes to further highlight why Twitter not implementing either an API key or OAuth is a big disappointment.
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