Privacy Disaster At Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed (Update: GroupTweet Is Likely Culprit)

Twitter should implement OAuth or equiv for it's api. I'm fed up of handing out my password to third party twitter applications.

The irony of this is that Blaine Cook is one of the leads on OAuth, IIRC.

"OAuth began in November 2006, during which Blaine Cook was developing the Twitter OpenID implementation" [0]

Now that is most strange. Perhaps it's still in development?

It appears as I wrote this, Blaine has left twitter

That's pretty rough. Maybe someday people will just stop using services that ask you for your passwords to other services. It's ridiculous.

Why would you use twitter for personal messages? It just doesn't make any sense :/

If it's a personal message, it's the equivalent of an sms on the web.

Sure. It just seems an odd choice. It's like using a blog to do revision control, by posting your source code as a new blog post each revision.

Each to their own though...

Because you don't always know the IM name of the person you want to message.