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ronin691Apr 15th 2008 2:19PM
"...You'll need to enter your Twitter login information in order to send out the poll." Grrrrrrr that's phishing!
Enough! This has got to stop. All the Twitter based services have to stop making you do that, first it is not a safe practice, second they only need to know my "with friends" RSS URL - that's it. Twitter has a developer only Oauth page they can use if the "with friends" RSS feed isn't enough. Hit Alex up directly http://twitter.com/al3x
I would like to see an investigative report by the DLS that lists all the third party Twitter services phishing for Twitter usenames and passwords, then post the list as a service to its readers.
Reference: http://microformats.org/wiki/social-network-anti-patterns
(Unverified)Apr 15th 2008 2:23PM
Polldaddy, Twitterfeed, Twhirl, Digsby, and pretty much every other desktop twitter client, etc...
The problem is that while you could track your Twitter contacts without a password, it would be difficult for any of these services to send out tweets with your name (so people know who send them a message) without your login info.
And while it might fit the loose definition of phishing, I've given my login information to at least half a dozen sits so far and nothing disastrous has happened. So far as I can tell nobody's started spamming everyone on my contacts list or sending unsolicited tweets from my account. It could certainly happen, but it's up to users to evaluated whether or not they trust any service with their data.