Comments on: Twitter privacy, protected updates and TweetEffect

By: privacy question

privacy question — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:36:24 +0000

If I google someone who tweets on twitter but I am not a registered user, do they know that I am viewing their tweets?

By: joe

joe — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:45:45 +0000

You guys are all feeding a huge database with info about what you buy and where you buy it. You are doing an awful lot of R&D for someone; and you are all paying to do so.
Crazy world man. Crazy.

By: dmitrisec

dmitrisec — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:07:16 +0000

one minor note – if some paranoid Tweeter has only restricted updates, shouldn’t Tweeteffect say something other than:

Invalid user name
Sorry we didn’t find any user with that name.

By: kosmar

kosmar — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:00:58 +0000

aint that even easier? i remember an “youandyourfriends.rss” which was public and included it all. is that already fixed at all?

By: Phil Teare

Phil Teare — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:56:29 +0000

While I’d agree with prett much everything you’ve said here, I think Twitter have made a sec mistake here.

iGoogle gadgets are no longer allowed to use ‘inlining’ as they rfered to xdomain JScript DOM population of Google hosted data. e.g. Mail, Docs etc…

Why? People were exploiting it.

Shame, but inevitable.

Will there be the motive to do the same with Tweets, private or otherwise? Prob not, but strictly speeking, Twitter dropped the security ball here (I know you love the fraze, Chris).