Twitter List

[Mike Moore]

I'd like to build a URUG list on twitter. If you have a twitter account please make sure its listed here.

http://groups.google.com/group/urug/web/tweeps?hl=en

Thanks!

[Bracken]

I made a urug list for myself that you can use as well. (it's mostly
from that link though)
http://twitter.com/brackenm/urug

[MilesTogoe]

okay so I went to create a twitter account to be part of the group -
username, password, then Twitter demands an email address, okay,
reasonable enough for communication or to confirm you or to have some
tracking mechanism on you, whatever - BUT then they demand your email
password! Why? They don't need your password to send you email.
Doesn't this defeat security 101: don't give out your password? Doesn't
it defeat the whole idea of a password between you and your email host
? Do you give other companies root access to your server information ?

I know you all love Twitter but this is simply wrong and I don't think
as computing professionals we should support or encourage the use of a
service or vendor that demands info that is none of their business and
can only lead to bad security or malicious activity. Just because it's
"cool" doesn't mean wrong behavior should be supported or encouraged.

To say they will protect it just avoids the point. At some point you
just have to "Just Say No". So NO to Twitter for this guy. And I hope
you do the right thing and all follow suit and the Ruby group chooses to
use communication vendors that don't demand stuff they have no business
to have and breaks security 101.

[grady player]

hmm, I made a twitter account a year or so ago, I don't remember that. I suspect it is just like linkedin, where they want to scan your contacts and see if they have feeds.

[Bracken]

I think the email password is optional. You only do it if you want it
to scan your contacts and tell you what friends have twitter accounts.

[MilesTogoe]

On 11/17/2009 07:31 AM, Bracken wrote:
> I think the email password is optional. You only do it if you want it
> to scan your contacts and tell you what friends have twitter accounts.
>

That would be okay (I think a similar thing is optional on Facebook)
but on Twitter it's not now optional (it created my account but on login
it came back and required a matching email and email account password)
so that's why Twitter's wrong, bad, evil on this issue.



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[grady player]

i tried to verify this, but twitter doesn't delete accounts... you can restore a deleted account

[Tim Harper]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:36 AM, MilesTogoe <miles...@gmail.com> wrote:

> That would be okay (I think a similar thing is optional on Facebook)
> but on Twitter it's not now optional (it created my account but on login
> it came back and required a matching email and email account password)
> so that's why Twitter's wrong, bad, evil on this issue.
>

Miles, I just signed up with a new account, logged out, and signed in
again. Not once was I required to enter my email account password. I
don't know if you got a different version of the site, or if the "skip
this step" link was out of view for you, but clicking "skip this step"
allowed me to do just that.

Tim

[MilesTogoe]

didn't see the skip step at all - however, signed in today and ta da -
no box asking for email and password - hmmm, automagic contextual
display ? or maybe my netbook screen size didn't show it - not sure -
life needs to be simpler and I need a full size tablet.

[Tim Harper]

> didn't see the skip step at all - however, signed in today and ta da -
> no box asking for email and password - hmmm, automagic contextual
> display ?  or maybe my netbook screen size didn't show it - not sure -
> life needs to be simpler and I need a full size tablet.

Don't we all need a full size tablet? :)