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PollDaddy adds Twitter polling feature
Users can set up a poll in a matter of seconds. Just visit the web site, type a short question, and select a few possible answers. You'll need to enter your Twitter login information in order to send out the poll. PollDaddy will automatically shorten the URL and send out a tweet under your name.
We're guessing that most users will either see your poll the moment you post it or they won't see it at all, so this service will be great for Twitter users with a large number of followers who need to get some information quickly. But you can also post links to your poll on a web page or pretty much anywhere else, so you could theoretically use PollDaddy's Twitter feature to gather information over time as well.
[via WebWare]
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Todd said 2:19PM on 4-15-2008
"...You'll need to enter your Twitter login information in order to send out the poll." Grrrrrrr that's phishing!
Enough! This has got to stop. All the Twitter based services have to stop making you do that, first it is not a safe practice, second they only need to know my "with friends" RSS URL - that's it. Twitter has a developer only Oauth page they can use if the "with friends" RSS feed isn't enough. Hit Alex up directly http://twitter.com/al3x
I would like to see an investigative report by the DLS that lists all the third party Twitter services phishing for Twitter usenames and passwords, then post the list as a service to its readers.
Reference: http://microformats.org/wiki/social-network-anti-patterns
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Brad Linder said 2:23PM on 4-15-2008
Polldaddy, Twitterfeed, Twhirl, Digsby, and pretty much every other desktop twitter client, etc...
The problem is that while you could track your Twitter contacts without a password, it would be difficult for any of these services to send out tweets with your name (so people know who send them a message) without your login info.
And while it might fit the loose definition of phishing, I've given my login information to at least half a dozen sits so far and nothing disastrous has happened. So far as I can tell nobody's started spamming everyone on my contacts list or sending unsolicited tweets from my account. It could certainly happen, but it's up to users to evaluated whether or not they trust any service with their data.