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Why do you want my Twitter password?
Why do you need my twitter password? My connections are public and so are my updates so why the password?
(edited to tone it down... i'm not _that_ mad.)
If you want the password to be some sort of claiming, why not ask the users to direct message your user through twitter with some Hash key you guys give each user? Private and efficient. No need to ask for passwords.
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(edited to tone it down... i'm not _that_ mad.)
If you want the password to be some sort of claiming, why not ask the users to direct message your user through twitter with some Hash key you guys give each user? Private and efficient. No need to ask for passwords.
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Inappropriate?Hey there. The password isn't to claim, it's so that we can show you direct messages and send stuff back to Twitter. We're not trying to be an aggregator...we're trying to be a conduit to the rest of your social networks, and so we'd like you to be able to publish from our platform as well.
Now, I will mention that we really don't want your password...we're not in the game of doing that, but right now, for API authentication, it's the only way. Check out our blog post here: http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/03/1...
And as a sidenote, soon you'll have the option of only giving us your username and we'll grab your public stuff only, but you won't be able to post or get direct messages.
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Inappropriate?Cool. Then I can use the service without providing you my password. Don't take it personally, of course. :) Just make sure you clear that up on the screen where you ask me my username. "to be able to see direct msgs, pvt content, we'll need your password too", smthn like that.
Oh, and this could work until twitter implements OAuth. Notice the lack of "if". hahaha I'm an optimist.
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Inappropriate?Related to this, will Socialthing be switching over to OAuth implementations then for Twitter and the others once they come online? (Similar to Flickr's external Auth process)
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