Comments on: Sheep Line Up in Perfect Twitter Formation

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

sheeps LOL – you should know by now allen that it is the sheeps that keep the social networks and twitter going

By: Deb Kolaras

Deb Kolaras — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Guilty as charged on the TR thing…got the best of me, well, for a second. Someone said people were checking out of vanity, which I think might be for some…others, myself included were more curious than anything. Lesson learned, consider me spanked.

By: PatriceC

PatriceC — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I went for TR as well (94.62 whatever that means) and the moment after I hit send the D’Oh moment happened and I changed my Twitter password.

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hallelujah!

It’s true in any aspect of life, offline as well as on. Sure, gain knowledge and expertise from the people that can offer it – but be yourself and stay true to yourself as well. My parents used to say you wouldn’t jump off a cliff if someone told you to, would you? Same principal applies here.

By: th13rteen

th13rteen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I seriously don’t think giving out your password to Twitterank is safe. What if Twitterank changes everyones’ password or logins and spams after they’ve got access to a ton of account. I’ll laugh my ass off if that happens.

Plus is it even worth taking the risk for a stupid rank? Me? I’ll pass.

By: tweetip

tweetip — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

1st Tweets Chart… http://tweetip.us/lkvhi

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Seriously, Allen! Giving out your password to a 3rd party site is something you should never get use to. Twitter needs to do something about this, and they can:

Twitter should release an official authentication scheme… you know, like Yahoo, MS Passport, Google, Facebook, many more. WIth those services, the user is required to go to the primary domain first (i.e. twitter.com) to give _permission_ to the 3rd party clients. No password is given up. Maybe you’ve done this Flickr at some point.

Right now tthere’s no oversight for these Twitter clients regarding password security, and encouraging users to give out their password like that is a dangerous thing for Twitter to let run rampant.

a) Release a login scheme
b) API ban-hammer on the clients that continue to prompt for usernames/passwords after a few months.