{"id":916,"date":"2008-11-13T00:44:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2008-11-14T16:53:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T15:53:02","slug":"twitterank-celeb-or-peon-t_rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Twitterank – celeb or peon? @t_rank"},"content":{"rendered":"

my Twitterank is 9999.99 http:\/\/twitterawesomeness.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Just a short post to remind users to be careful with their online credentials.<\/p>\n

Twitterank appears to have grabbed the limelight (tonight, GMT) as one such web application that relies on folks wanting to be popular…or at least find out how popular (or not) they are in comparison to some metric that ranks them over other users.<\/p>\n

However it’s basically a user-name and password harvesting mechanism. I have a suspicion that it’s a social experiment and all those passwords that were collected will not be used for anything dodgy. Whatever the truth, in the wrong hands the possibilities are endless – here are a couple to worry you: @blowdart<\/a> and @camurphy<\/a><\/p>\n

\ncamurphy:<\/strong> @blowdart @dacort – true evilness would be to post random tweets from random victims…did I just say that out loud? <\/p>\n

blowdart:<\/strong> @CAMURPHY @dacort Stuff like “I’m wearing my sister’s panties”. DO IT!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you have received a Twitterank, my advice to you<\/strong> is that you change your Twitter password immediately. Once you’ve done that, any other places that you use that same password for, change it there too.<\/p>\n

A safe parody of the site can be found here<\/a>, courtesy of @dacort<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s more here:
\nhttp:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/collaboration\/?p=163<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/mashable.com\/2008\/11\/12\/twitterrank\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.louisgray.com\/live\/2008\/11\/twitterank-can-have-my-password-no.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/blog\/2008\/nov\/13\/twitter-password-security<\/a><\/p>\n

If you must rank yourself, check out twitter.grader.com<\/a> – it doesn’t need your password to give you some feel-good factor!<\/p>\n

Oh, @t_rank<\/a>, I’m still waiting for reply to this polite request<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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