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interesting concept and this might actually be useful to me as I "follow" something like 700 or 800 ppl. on the other hand, i will not be able to use it. my tw

interesting concept and this might actually be useful to me as I "follow" something like 700 or 800 ppl. on the other hand, i will not be able to use it. my twitter password is for me and me only: http://blog.dave.org.uk/2008/12/twitter-and-passwords.html http://blog.dave.org.uk/2008/12/twitter-and-passwords.html isn't there a way to use this with the user's currently logged in twitter cookie/session or some such like http://twitpay.me http://twitpay.me does?

jackowayed 18y ago
Twitpay doesn't use the twitter session. The way twitpay is setup, it's a lot easier to go without a password. The only ways not to use a password lead to ridiculously huge scaling issues. According to Twitter, they will offer OAuth (http://oauth.net http://oauth.net) "shortly". When they do that, I'll implement it.
jpcx01 18y ago
Really? Seriously, what permanent damage can twitter link monster do when they steal your twitter account and start posting PR0n ad links to it. You'll get your twitter account back, and then just delete those posts. And twitter monster will have made about $1.30 in affiliate fees, and be out of business. And you'd have some great material for 6-7 blog posts about how you'll never give out your twitter account information again. Sorry, your paranoia just doesn't add up. Now, in some cases it does. If someone stole my gmail account, they'd be able to use google payments to buy whatever they hell they want. But twitter? Give me a break.
- jackowayed 18y ago
  No, I understand the issues, especially for normal users. Normal users have a 1-password-fits-all scheme, which is a really bad idea. Then getting your Twitter account stolen is megabad. Even so though, there's twitpay, which lets you make payments via Twitter (I think it's setup so that it would only be any money that you have in your twitpay account that someone could steal, not money in paypal/credit card.) Still, if someone leaves a few hundred in their twitpay account that's sizable. Plus there's also a bug someone found so that once someone is logged in as you, they can just not close the window and keep tweeting as you forever. But that's still just tweeting. But really, the only people that really need to be wary of giving out their twitter password are people who use that username and pass for other things and people who have larges sums of money in their Twitpay account. I'm not stealing your passwords anyway though :-)
jackowayed 18y ago
and when twitpay blogged about not giving out your Twitter info (http://blog.twitpay.me/2008/12/10/stop-sharing-your-twitter-credentials/ http://blog.twitpay.me/2008/12/10/stop-sharing-your-twitter-...), saying that even if none of the apps use it maliciously, they could get hacked and have your info in their logs, I checked and made sure that people's info isn't stored in logs. And of course it's encrypted in the db.

jackowayed 18y ago

Twitpay doesn't use the twitter session. The way twitpay is setup, it's a lot easier to go without a password. The only ways not to use a password lead to ridiculously huge scaling issues. According to Twitter, they will offer OAuth (http://oauth.net http://oauth.net) "shortly". When they do that, I'll implement it.

jpcx01 18y ago

Really? Seriously, what permanent damage can twitter link monster do when they steal your twitter account and start posting PR0n ad links to it. You'll get your twitter account back, and then just delete those posts. And twitter monster will have made about $1.30 in affiliate fees, and be out of business. And you'd have some great material for 6-7 blog posts about how you'll never give out your twitter account information again. Sorry, your paranoia just doesn't add up. Now, in some cases it does. If someone stole my gmail account, they'd be able to use google payments to buy whatever they hell they want. But twitter? Give me a break.

jackowayed 18y ago
No, I understand the issues, especially for normal users. Normal users have a 1-password-fits-all scheme, which is a really bad idea. Then getting your Twitter account stolen is megabad. Even so though, there's twitpay, which lets you make payments via Twitter (I think it's setup so that it would only be any money that you have in your twitpay account that someone could steal, not money in paypal/credit card.) Still, if someone leaves a few hundred in their twitpay account that's sizable. Plus there's also a bug someone found so that once someone is logged in as you, they can just not close the window and keep tweeting as you forever. But that's still just tweeting. But really, the only people that really need to be wary of giving out their twitter password are people who use that username and pass for other things and people who have larges sums of money in their Twitpay account. I'm not stealing your passwords anyway though :-)

jackowayed 18y ago

and when twitpay blogged about not giving out your Twitter info (http://blog.twitpay.me/2008/12/10/stop-sharing-your-twitter-credentials/ http://blog.twitpay.me/2008/12/10/stop-sharing-your-twitter-...), saying that even if none of the apps use it maliciously, they could get hacked and have your info in their logs, I checked and made sure that people's info isn't stored in logs. And of course it's encrypted in the db.