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Re: A new way to get in Club140 (Scripting News)

Sam Freedoms Twitter Category — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:11:52 -0000

Excellent idea, Dave. It's a lot of fun and can bring those who wish some decent traffic. I Sphunn and commented about it right here and will probably do a short write-up about it on my controversy blog.

Cheers!
Sam

Re: A new way to get in Club140 (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:17:46 -0000

Is there a way, through the Twitter API, to determine if a message is protected?

As far as messages being archived, they aren't.

Re: A new way to get in Club140 (Scripting News)

Luke T (sexyer1) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:18:49 -0000

Jet lagged or not, @davewiner has not yet responded to my announcement of major data privacy breaches for "protected" twitter accounts on his http://club140.org/ project.

The people whom you follow who have "protected" twitter accounts have a small red padlock displayed at the end of their posts in your logged in homepage on twitter, the title text of this image is "(Users Name)’s updates are protected! Please don’t share."

Dave Winer's http://club140.org/ project displays the information of these "protected" accounts, thus making them public and archived.

The project also has a flaw when someone writes a message which is sent to @davewiner or if they follow @davewiner and just write a message which is exactly 140 characters long, it gets archived on the http://club140.org/ project, but if you then realize for whatever reason, that you maybe decide your words will be misinterpreted, or you change your mind about something you wrote, it remains archived to the project even after you delete it on twitter. I think the http://club140.org/ project archives every 10 minutes (25, 35, 45, 55...) so if your message is posted on twitter just before it gets archived to the project, then you delete it from twitter just after it gets archived it remains public on the project.

This breach is a major issue, imagine you said something controversial, or private which was unknowingly publicly republished on the project and then later seen on the project website by a current or potential employer, perhaps by them googling your name or known username!? You could loose your job or miss-out on a potential job!

While I think this http://club140.org/ project is somewhat interesting, even though I advocate for more character space on twitter, I think there is also some concern that people aren't opting in to this project, they are being forced. This is a major concern for privacy!

Re: A new way to get in Club140 (Scripting News)

Phil Crissman — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:07:47 -0000

Of course, if I start beginning messages with '@davewiner ', that only leaves 129 characters to write with. ;)

Re: A new way to get in Club140 (Scripting News)

Levi Figueira — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:31:48 -0000

You mean "If you tweet..."?? :p haha
Leo Laporte won't be too happy if you keep saying "I'll post a twit"! hehe

Good idea... I'll post some useless Twoosh(tm) some time later on! :)

Re: A new way to get in Club140 (Scripting News)

Vishy Venugopalan — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:29:34 -0000

I don't think the script is picking up all 140 character Tweets addressed to @davewiner. I tried twice, no joy. Any filtering going on, Dave?

Re: A new way to get in Club140 (Scripting News)

Ontario Emperor — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:37:26 -0000

I disagreed with Benz's premise that Twitter itself is undesirable because of what Club 140 is doing. A tool can be used for admittedly silly purposes, or it can be used to distribute important information (Nate Ritter's experience with the San Diego fires comes to mind).

P.S. Your French is better than mine.

Re: A new way to get in Club140 (Scripting News)

ebarrera — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:14:51 -0000

hahahaha! That's a nice try, but I won't be original!

Re: A new way to get in Club140 (Scripting News)

james wallace — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:12:44 -0000

@chumworth and @mimisyaka - just got the WHO DVD from Netflix circa 1970 in the mail! going to watch this weekend. hella fun for all 4 of us

NOTE: and this included two other twits