OAuth is a way to permit a third party application to act on your behalf with resources on a website without knowing your credentials for the website. Basically its a third party application that does the authentication part for you.
Carefully go through the following links :
http://p2p.wrox.com/content/articles/twitter-development-oauth-workflow
http://oauth.net/
wiki
http://hueniverse.com/oauth/
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