Best practices - store Twitter credentials or not?

Question

I\'d like to be able to give my users the ability to display their recent tweets on their profile on my website.

I have a PHP twitter wrapper and understand how to m

Answer 1

You don't need their passwords to pull their latest tweets, unless their profiles are locked, simply pull the feed from http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.rss

You should look at Twitter's OAUTH support (although they have disabled it). This enables you to prompt the users once, and then store a response from twitter which will allow you to post