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@UnionSt twplyfail indeed. i changed my password the day i signed up! #twplyfail
wow. just started getting a whack of @ replies from twply even though i changed my password weeks ago. #twplyfail
Twply (a new tool for getting @replies to email) spams Twitter: http://search.twitter.com/search... -- really awful marketing. Stupid. Lame. Idiotic.
Doug McArthur, Steve 'Chippy' Paine, Timo Heuer and 41 other people liked this
Not that I like it any more than everyone else, but it does give you the option to turn the post off when you sign up. Language could be a lot more specific though, and it should be off by default.
- Brad Kellett
Why would you want @replies to email anyway? RSS seems a much more elegant solution.
- AJ Kohn
One of the reasons I use Twitter (and FF and IM and etc) is to AVOID stuff getting sent to my email. I don't get what the value of Twply is supposed to be.
- Troy Forster
from twhirl
first time I've seen it, I thought someone actually tweeted it. Then all of a sudden, most of my timeline was 'tweeting' the same message.
- Dee S.
Email may be preferable on some mobile devices. But, I agree with Robert, an awful way to spam Twitter. Spam as the default=bad. Choice of "support twply on your first login" is too vague and even misleading.
- iSteeve
They seem to have a different idea of what "viral marketing" is about.
- Franz Binder
Definetely agree with iSteeve - "I support twply ... every three weeks I show them love" is vague. This does not indicate to me that every three weeks they will be sending out spam with my name attached. I hope they are shut down.
- Renee Hendricks
any 3rd application that asks for my twitter name/pswd - I don't give my info. Red flag - but just my opinion.
- Jennifer
The thing that put it over the edge for me was "Neat Stuff!" --- It sounds like a personal endorsement instead of an announcement that someone is trying it out. Big difference between "I'm trying this out" and "I think this is the coolest thing ever"
- Jose Castillo
I don't think they should shut down, I think they need to let the people who use it tell others about it on a "hey check this tool out", basis.
- Charlieray
I agree with TheJennTaFur ... unfortunately, Twply has set a bad example for those 3rd party twitter apps who are actually developing for the betterment of the Twittersphere, not just to spread themselves thin
- Kevin Pruett
They've now seemingly removed the checkbox altogether from their site.
- Patrick Veverka
FWIW, I enabled Twply on a test account and it honored my "no tweet" request
- Dan Byler
Don't trust them now. Changed my Twitter password so they couldn't screw with my account. We need a better way to interact with Twitter from a security perspective. Some sort of trust 3rd party. Maybe Twitter could implement something that allowed us to authorize various clients through the Twitter site, rather than giving out our password to multiple companies. PeopleBrowsr, TweetDeck, etc, etc all have our password.
- Scott Maentz
Pretty sure that you made twply's day, Robert.
- beersage
beersage: probably.
- Robert Scoble
I wish I had seen your post about 8 minutes earlier Robert.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Dan, I tried it on a test account and it tweeted anyway. Seems like they have a bug in their code.
- Patrick Veverka
Agree with @smaentz -- third party apps should be authorized through Twitter account, not by giving out Twitter password.
- Frank Scavo
Started hashtag #twplyFAIL
- Justin Stayshyn
You know, the CAN-SPAM act is sufficiently vague on the definition of an electronic mail message that this type of stuff could feasibly be under its domain. Do they provide an opt-out mechanism for their "support" tweets? Is there a physical address?
- Mark Trapp
I agree with Scott - we need the allow/authorize feature for clients in Twitter. I m recommending everyone to change their Twitter pswd after the 'twply' thing. As soon I put my Twitter username and pwd I found something weird about it!
- Frank Da Silva
They need to be clear what it means to "support" them on your first login. I see from their Twitter stream that they'll post your "support" every three weeks. Did I miss that on their home page?
- Julie Barrett
Was this due to not reading carefully? Or are they sent even if elected not to support? Read carefully before signing up at http:/twply.com
- Brian
Brian: it's both. The opt-in was "support Twply on first login": no mention of sending out a Tweet. In addition, people are reporting that even though they clicked "No thanks" they sent out the tweet anyway. Combined with the developer of Twply's intransigence, it doesn't make for a very good experience.
- Mark Trapp
Checking out the twply page again - I m wondering where is the 'about us', 'contact us, 'help', etc... as in any other website/application or whois behind it hyperlink! Very weird indeed! Red Flag big time!! as the first 2009 starter it failed!! This is the Whois Record for the domain: http://whois.domaintools.com/twply...
- Frank Da Silva
Yeah, last thing I want is twitter invading my inbox. Part of what I like about twitter is the lack of inbox integration.
- Jeff
I unchecked the support box and it still sent the spam. There is no delete account on the site. Changed my password. This is a spam hack. FAIL.
- Mark Interrante
unchecked the support box, same as everyone else, still sent the tweet
- Patphelan
If you're an active Twitter user and 1) you see two or three people with the same tweet in near succession and 2) go check out the service and 3) see the "Support twply..." radio button, and you can't put it all together to know it's going to send the same message on your behalf if you opt-in, well then, i don't know what to tell you. I guess stop breathing through your mouth?
- Morgan
...if on the otherhand you checked no and it still sent it then that is total fail. @mark trapp's comment about CAN-SPAM and the opt-out of notices is also an interesting angle.
- Morgan
Doesn't Twply.com mimic what TweetLater.com already does? Per the site, Tweetlater has about 12K Twitter users.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
twply just sold for $1200 , very strange http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auction...
- Patphelan
Is this credible? Doesn't it seem nuts to sell so quickly? And what are they selling? The service or just the domain name?
- Carter Rabasa
Could be that the seller will incur costs beyond what they can handle and decided to sell, Or they just ran off with people's account info.
- Charlieray
My first -ve experience with twitter. Compliments of twply.
- B2B Specialist
Fastest flip in the history of Web 2.0? Twply was just sold for $1200 after being in operation for less than a day. http://bit.ly/twply4sale
- Mike Doeff
An interesting dilemma - I hate spam and would like to boycott anything promoted that way. Usually it's junk - Viagra or whatever - but occasionally it's something I would actually have liked had it been promoted honestly. I agree with Frank Scavo and @smaentz though: Twitter should have a better access-control system, like Flickr: give Twply read-only access, no risk of this happening in the first place.
- James
Mike - I'd say this one was just as quick - http://www.centernetworks.com/justhac...
- Allen Stern
Scott: it's probably worth me pointing out that TweetDeck accesses your Twitter username password from your local machine only, it is not stored centrally. There's no point saving this data centrally, poses way to much of a security risk and responsibilty on the developers shoulders.
- Iain Dodsworth
I don't know if I'd consider 825 sign-ups (according to their sale notice) all that effective, especially considering the number of big names that talked about it. It did net the guy a quick 1,200 bucks, though.
- Mark Trapp
I suspect oAuth just got bumped up the list at Twitter today. Even Google Friend Connect is asking for my Twitter password.
- Bob Hitching
Anyone else think Twitter needs OAuth? #twplyFAIL - http://twitter.com/twplysp...
RT @ryantaylor: @twply I don't like mobs I'm not leaving your service because of that, it was your interaction with me. #twplyFAIL
@UnionSt @ryantaylor Their response was crazy. I'd think they were outside the US except their domain reg is US based. #twplyFAIL
@jeffjarvis: I was pretty sure I told Twply *not* to send out the auto-spam Twitter post when I signed up, but they did anyway
Jordan Hofker, Tyson Key, Scott Sorheim and 6 other people liked this
FWIW, I just enabled Twply on a test account and it respected my "no tweet" request
- Dan Byler
It ignored my request as well #twplyFAIL
- Justin Stayshyn
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