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Twitterank Can Have My Password, No Questions Asked

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader

Nov 13, 2008

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Today Twitter was abuzz around the launch of a new site that ostensibly provides you with a numerical ranking, based on your followers, those you follow, and their collective clout. Twitterank, like Twitter Grader and others, is trying to deliver some kind of service to separate the influential from the less influential, as if we need more ways to do that. But the piece that has everyone stirring about their goals is the fact they ask for your Twitter user name and password. Today, I checked out Twitterank, just like so many others, and gained a numerical score that may have no value at all. In that process, I trusted the developer and the site with my Twitter login data, and frankly, that's of no issue to me in any way. As I said the other day, I believe people are inherently good, and if you're trying to harvest a host of passwords, Twitter wouldn't be the place to do it in secret by any means. So I have no concerns.

The whole concept of Twitterank is questionable. First, why would anybody care what their rank was? Second, what would a numerical score of 50 ...Read the full article

Comments (1)

Friarminor,

Nov 13, 2008

Privacy is an illusion?