Twitter Makes Changes to Apps, URL Wrapping

Over the coming weeks, Twitter will be rolling out two major updates to its service. These updates will impact how third-party applications (such as desktop applications, websites and smart phone apps) access and interact with your data, and how URLs are displayed in the necessarily restrictive 140-character space allotted for your tweets. Below the jump, details on these major updates.

The first update makes some changes to how users authorize third-party Twitter applications. Before this update, users usually authorized each application through a separate process, and were required to log-in to these applications from a page away from Twitter.