Background login with OAuth

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Published on 2010-03-30T08:34:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 8:43 UTC
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I'm soon to write a web based Twitter client which I plan to allow users to login with OAuth. My question is; can, once a user has logged in once already, my app login later and 'background' process their feed for them? I.E. does the user have to 'be there'?

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