TweetScribe and your password on Twitter
With all of the hubub of twitter, oauth, celeb accounts getting hacked, and phishing dm’s going out like mad, I wanted to make a statement about how TweetScribe handles your passwords.
We don’t.
There’s a little bit of grey text below the login box of TweetScribe that I really mean. “We do not store your password!” And I want to prove that to you.
All authentication is handled by Twitter. If Twitter doesn’t auth you, TweetScribe won’t auth you. The above code happens after Twitter says your username and password is valid. We then store your user name so when you log in next we can grab your searches on TweetScribe. No passwords are saved in this code or anywhere else.
We don’t need your password either. All searches we do when you are not logged in to TweetScribe are handled under our own username and password. (Not really needed with twitter’s search API but we log in anyway) The only time TweetScribe needs your password is when you want to follow someone, or post a tweet in reply to someone else.
So no more second guessing whether or not you should try us out. Log in and give TweetScribe a try!