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Automatically posting to twitter - bad.
Adding integration with Twitter automatically posted to my Twitter feed, without warning me (or if it did, the warning wasn't big enough!)
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Hey guys
I just want to write a quick reaction to this topic.
We sure made a mistake by switching on the automatic tweeting from your Twitter accounts, but as soon as we got reaction on the auto-post we removed it.
In my opinion you really need to be careful with your login information for social networks, but to integrate Twitter with a service like E we just need to store your username and password. We would love it te be able to use a system like OAuth for our Twitter integration but they simply don’t support it yet. We ask social networks to provide OAuth support instead of the standard HTTP authentification.
Regards
Andreas
(copied from http://socialmediablend.com/2008/09/2...)
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Inappropriate?Words can't express how bad this practice is.
It's bad enough that mynameise is using the password anti-pattern. What they then do with that information is confirmation of what makes this such so dodgy.
Sending a twitter message from somebody else's account is effectively a form of identity theft, akin to sending an email from somebody else's account.
I’m pissed off
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Inappropriate?yeah, thanks for making me look and feel stupid - it's *me* that gets to twitter, not your password phishing bots!
I’m regretting signing up
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Inappropriate?I'm not an E user, but I was irritated by the automatic message from my friends who are trying it, and I'm sure they wouldn't have sent it if they had a choice.
Worst of all, they've typed their password for another service into E, which is a major security problem - the "password anti-pattern" Jeremy mentions - and the E website doesn't make it nearly clear enough that in order to use this service, you must hand over your credentials for other services. It's couched in way too much fluffiness - users should understand the seriousness of what they're doing when they sign up to E.
I’m disappointed.
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Inappropriate?To be fair, any service integrating with the twitter API at this point in time is forced to use the "password anti-pattern", at least until twitter start supporting oAuth or something similar.
This doesn't excuse the sending of the initial twitter message on the user's behalf of course, which irritates me too, but I think it's worth keeping these 2 issues separate. -
Inappropriate?Yep, add me to the list of pissed off people here. Damage is done already, but I'll not be using this service any more. If you can;t get this simple thing right, it doesn't bode well for the future.
I’m angry
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Inappropriate?Won't be adding Twitter or anything else to my E account. Shame, looked like a cool service at first.
I’m disappointed
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Inappropriate?I almost signed up for the beta, until I realised they were doing this. Now I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole! Is it just Twitter they do this with? Would I give them my Gmail details so they can see my address book, only for them to email everybody about their new service?
I’m angry
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These are the services they (plan to) integrate with: http://skitch.com/mario/s795/e-services
Only tried twitter and not using the other 2 services that are live, but would want some reassurance from E before adding any additional services now.. -
Inappropriate?Sadly we just don't know and that's the worry isn't it?
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Inappropriate?Love this:
E's privacy gold standard rules:
"E does not facilitate spam and does not support the activities of spammers":
http://tinyurl.com/3lzrkg
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LOL. Oops!
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Inappropriate?Contacted them to terminate my account. Got email soon after from the lead PM saying "Apologies, we are sorry for the inconvenience, and we will terminate your account immediately."
I wonder how many more he's going to have to send like that? Perhaps a message in tihs thread might head it off at the pass... -
Inappropriate?@hellomynameise just publicly acknowledged people's concerns in the following tweet:
http://twitter.com/hellomynameise/sta...
Hopefully that will be the end of it. If so, props to the team for acting & responding so quickly!
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"The autotweet function was something we implemented to test Twitter service integration. A lot of people liked to share their E usage over Twitter, but we decided to take it out after complaints. It might return as an option. Post your feature requests, feedback and rants to the Feedback pane in E or use Get Satisfaction!"
http://twitter.com/hellomynameise/sta...
http://blog.hellomynameise.com/
I think it is fine that they reintroduce the autotweet at a later date, providing they make it blatantly clear to users and offer an opt-in / opt-out function. -
Yep, agreed. It needs to be opt-in.
Any startup in this arena should be well aware of these kind of concerns and not even consider doing stuff like that. It shows a lack of understanding on their part I think, which is disappointing -
Inappropriate?Yep, all credit to them for responding quickly, although my question is whatever made them think it was a good idea in the first place (http://twitter.com/richard_barley/sta...). But there you go, I guess I just get a bit agitated by htings like this.
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Inappropriate?You give someone your password, and they do something malicious with it. It's not right. But it's not exactly unexpected. There's a simple solution: stop giving your password to websites whenever they ask for it. Keep doing that and they'll stop asking and blimmin' well implement OAuth. -
Inappropriate?Yeah, I'm normally very cautious with my twitter password, but these guys had me food, and boy do I now feel stupid for trusting them!
If Twitter implemented OAuth, I could have allowed this app to only read my tweets. Wonder what happened to: http://twitter.com/oauth - it used to be an API
I’m embarrassed
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Inappropriate?Hey guys
I just want to write a quick reaction to this topic.
We sure made a mistake by switching on the automatic tweeting from your Twitter accounts, but as soon as we got reaction on the auto-post we removed it.
In my opinion you really need to be careful with your login information for social networks, but to integrate Twitter with a service like E we just need to store your username and password. We would love it te be able to use a system like OAuth for our Twitter integration but they simply don’t support it yet. We ask social networks to provide OAuth support instead of the standard HTTP authentification.
Regards
Andreas
(copied from http://socialmediablend.com/2008/09/2...)
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