Comments on: “Twitter” Petition Demanding Equal iPhone 3GS Pricing For All Gains Steam – But Signing May Be A Bad Idea

By: joetomasone

joetomasone — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:23:39 +0000

In reply to Patrick Altoft. @Patrick Altoft: Perhaps you should speak to the gentleman behind http://keynotetweets.com - his site parsed (and displayed) all of the #wwdc tweets and didn't seem to have a problem. Again, asking someone for their login credentials, regardless of how innocent your motives may be, is not something that as an IT security type I can ever really endorse.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:36:49 +0000

^^^^ Patrick's site is: http://www.blogstorm.co.uk Does look legit, from just a very quick look - make your own judgements :)

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:05:20 +0000

My agency runs the site and I can assure you we don't store passwords and the only thing we do is tweet the petition. We tried to let people just tweet the link without asking for the password but it's too resource intensive to scrape Twitter every second just to see if somebody has tweeted something.

We are reputable – check out my blog to see what we do.

By: joetomasone

joetomasone — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:47:59 +0000

In reply to iph0ne. @iph0ne: You could always do that with a simple link just like the "Tweet this" link we have on each article here.

By: joetomasone

joetomasone — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:47:29 +0000

In reply to iph0ne. You could always do that with a simple link just like the "Tweet this" link we have on each article here.

By: iph0ne

iph0ne — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:34:30 +0000

Is it not done so it can tweet from your account that you have signed and post a link to the petition?

By: Christina Batten

Christina Batten — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:30:40 +0000

Thank you for writing this common sense blog. I twittered this to my friends. Anyone who did give out their twitter password should be sure to change it asap – as well as any other accounts that may share the same login credentials and password (email comes to mind as an immediate risk if you share the same password).

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:58:43 +0000

I never even noticed it until Joe's post, but fully agree with not signing – way too many Twitter hacks lately …

By: brandonsteili

brandonsteili — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:52:01 +0000

That's why I didn't sign it – not handing out my twitter password… sorry!