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rahimrahman started following the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite.

rahimrahman replied on July 10, 2008 15:06 to the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Is Twitter cross posting back online? My last few note posts ranging from 8-14 hours ago never made it to Twitter.

Sven replied on July 10, 2008 00:52 to the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

sweet. thanx. now following all y'all.

A comment on the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

It should be back soon. If it's going to be longer, I will post an update in this thread as well as on Twitter. You can follow us there to see all of our updates (@brightkite). – Lesley, on July 09, 2008 23:58

Sven replied on July 09, 2008 23:49 to the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Aaaah, bummer. Okay, but when will it come back? I loved this feature when I saw others using it.

Lesley replied on July 09, 2008 23:48 to the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Sven, we have disabled Twitter posting for the time being. It will be back later. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Sven replied on July 09, 2008 23:31 to the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

My Twitter account is not showing Check In's. I'm on Public and all Twitter variables are enabled. Any idea?

A comment on the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Thanks for the response. I understand that brightkite needs to use the "raw" password to talk to Twitter, but I would recommend storing the password in your database in encrypted fashion. That way a simple SQL query or dump would not expose them to malicious use. Only a programmer with knowledge of the encryption mechanism and keys would be able to gain access. – peccatorimpius, on July 01, 2008 22:40

Lesley replied on June 30, 2008 17:08 to the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Hi Robert, thanks for letting us know about this. We are working on the problem right now.

Robert Gonzalez replied on June 30, 2008 16:28 to the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Is there something broken with Twitter updates today? I have posted three or four posts in Bk this morning and none of them have posted to Twitter. I have never experienced this (except in very rapid sequential BK posts) so this is new to me.

A comment on the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

I second this one. – Morgan Aldridge, on June 28, 2008 13:58

A comment on the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

We take all the necessary precautions to protect your account information and the BK employees do not have access to your password unless we absolutely need it. Ideally, we would prefer to not have to take your Twitter password, but Twitter does not give us any other way to integrate with them (e.g. using OAuth, or some other token-based authentication). – Lesley, on June 27, 2008 22:03

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peccatorimpius replied on June 27, 2008 21:33 to the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Is the Twitter password stored in the database "in the clear" or is it encrypted so that employees with access to the database cannot easily obtain the account password?

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Can't wait until that feature is out! – sunnyacre, on June 26, 2008 22:26

A comment on the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Thanks, Lesley. That's the only thing keeping me from moving completely from Twitter to BrightKite. Much appreciated! – justinbaeder, on June 26, 2008 22:16

A comment on the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Justin, we are working on something that should help with the high number of users who are private on Twitter. I don't have an ETA right now, but we are working on it. – Lesley, on June 26, 2008 18:17

A comment on the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Lesley - I'm not sure that's true. Maybe the people who get the most attention on Twitter have their accounts set to Public, but there are tons of people in small, closed networks of friends (such as myself) who use Twitter heavily. I'm concerned that this population is invisible as a constituency, and that this will keep people from using BrightKite. – justinbaeder, on June 26, 2008 02:23

A comment on the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Lesley, is there anything in the works that will allow cross-posting to twitter while in Private Hidden mode? It would be a great thing to be able to keep my status on both brightkite and twitter viewable by friends only. – sunnyacre, on June 25, 2008 06:15

A comment on the idea "Post to Twitter" in Brightkite:

Justin, we treat Twitter as everyone else for a couple of reasons. Twitter does not have fine-grained privacy controls and the majority of users have their Twitter account set to Public. – Lesley, on June 23, 2008 14:47