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I wanted to familiarize myself with a nosql database. So I decided to use mongohq which is a hosted mongodb.

This site lets you send Twitter updates when you push to GitHub. GitHub provides similar functionality but it's pretty lame since you have to hand over your creds. OAuth ftw!

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OAuth is great, but the app doesn't actually say what it's going to do with my Twitter account. Developers especially are wary of handing over access to their accounts (OAuth or not), so it might be good to summarise what your app will post before making the user authenticate.

Strongly agreed. "First, you'll need to login." Actually, first, I need to be told what this app does.

Haha, point taken. I always error (literally) on the side of conciseness. I'll add more verbage.

I added better messaging and error handling since Twitter seems to be really flakey this morning.

Is there a big difference with just using a hook like this one? http://gitorious.org/tweetthegit

Not necessarily. Setting up the hook on GitHub's end lets you not worry about having the proper hook set up on your laptop (I guess).

*err, not error

I did not know that! Seriously. May I recall all the times I've misused "error".

Yep, you may :D

"verbage" ~= verbiage?

Thanks, added some more verbage and error handling.

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