Here's the sale: http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auction... Amazing. - Mark Trapp

Crap :/ - embee

Twitter really needs an API key. I've sworn off any 3rd-party app or site that needs a real password. - Tinfoil 2.0

Beware - they are tied into http://www.tweetmanager.com as well (via http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auction... and click www.twautor.com). - Renee Hendricks

$1200 for a site up for one day? The smell of phish is strong. - Jack&Cleo

remember it is now 2009 ;) - Michael W. May

Mark, thanks for the due diligence and heads-up! - Gregg

To be fair, I saw the sale notice buried in one of the threads on FriendFeed about Twiply, figured it warranted a top-level post about it. - Mark Trapp

i saw a bunch of prominent tweeple tweet about this service earlier today, and i guess those endorsements triggered lots of others to sign-up without stopping to consider what was going on..."meme-think" at its worst. - .LAG liked that

I changed my twitter password. But the bastards have my email. Oh well. - Jim Williams

Never touched it - Tyler (Chacha)

And I even changed both my passwords anyway :) - Tyler (Chacha)

I did not use it...good thing - Susan Beebe

Twitter should investigate, they can start with the Tweet stream from Twply. I'll keep my eye out for new "offers" in my gmail inbox. - B2B Specialist

I went to the site but closed the browser when I realized it was another site that wanted my Twitter password. - Bob Gannon

without using ssl - Michael W. May from twhirl

I'm surprised anyone did use them after all the recent shenanigans. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

....plus the name puts me in mind of bathroom tissue/toilet tissue/bog roll... - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

I was a sucker. I am swearing off 3rd party applications until Twitter gets an API key. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Susanne BULLO - good catch on connecting Twply with TweetManager. FYI - TweetManager has a feature that lets you DM up to 1,000 people. - Mike Doeff

Yikes, going to change my password now. - Zach

Nope, sure didn't. Nothing in my Twitter stream is important enough for me to care. But yeah, they are shady. - Bwana ☠

Have any journalists/bloggers actually tried contacting them to get their viewpoint? - trextor

trextor: it's hard to contact a guy who doesn't have contact information. The only identifiable information is on the whois record for Twply.com, which may or may not actually correspond to an actual person. That being said, if you look at Twply's Twitter account or the comment it left on http://scobleizer.com, the person running Twply doesn't think it's done anything wrong, at least when it comes to its marketing or opt-in mechanism. They went dark just before the sale, so nobody knows what they think about that. - Mark Trapp

@mark, i did verify that the whois information is real after I posted about this situation here: http://helloform.com/blog... - Fred Oliveira

Just to clarify.. Did they sell all the data as well, or just the service? - Winston Teo

I bought FauxAuth.net with the intention of making an OAuth middleman so you COULD cut a site off if something like this happened. - Tom

OAuth FTW. - Chris Messina

Mike Doeff: Thanks. For those looking for contact info, since twply appears to be connected to twautor which is an aka for tweetmanager, you can find a contact person very quickly and easily for tweetmanager - "Bill McIntosh TweetManager.com Founder http://www.billmcintosh.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/billmci..." - Renee Hendricks

Mark - Thanks for the heads up. Was bound to happen sooner or later ?! - Charlie Anzman

Thanks for the details Mark. - trextor

Hehe, happy I didn't try that one :-) - Richard A.