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Stop asking for Twitter passwords

Is it really necessary that the "Twitter this" widget asks for people's password? It is *not* okay to ask for the password for one site on a completely different site.

Now I know that the Twitter API doesn't provide any OAuth-style authentication but for this situation, you don't even need to do that. You just need to create a link on the fly:

http://twitter.com/home?status=Your+m...

Please stop teaching people that it's okay to throwtheir passwords around like confetti. You are teaching people how to be phished.

http://adactio.com/journal/1357
http://microformats.org/wiki/social-n...
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/arch...
http://adactio.com/journal/1513/
 
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