Twitter Rank has been get a sizeable amount of tweets lately. Whether Tweeples are just fanning their egos or checking to see how their profiles stack up, Tweeples are turning over their user names and passwords to Twitter rank – all to get a statistic.
Oliver Marks posted an article about this here where he says:
I picked up on this after seeing Tantek Çelik retweet:
@t RT @brianoberkirch Twitterank is a vast conspiracy I created to steal all of ur passwords + shame Twitter into OAuthing. + make u look vain.
Check out this screenshot of the source code captured by @nateritter:
When reading the Tweet and the comments in the source code, it hints that the developer has a chip on his shoulder with Twitter’s API policies.
Having been told that Twitterank.com is stealing passwords and has potentially stolen yours; coupled with the above evidence; it would be easy to get worried and start to warn others. Does this mean that Twitter rank is guilty of anything bad?
The comments in the source code never claim that there is anything harmful being done with the passwords. In fact, the text on the actual page says the exact opposite.
It seems that Twitterank.com had the viral effects of the social web help it’s blazing speed growth, and consequently, the spread of rumours and fear among twitter land in the worst possible way…..virally.
Adam Ostro wrote a great article on this: Twitterank Might Not Have Been A Phishing Scam, But It Sure Was Intersting
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twitterank is not the only site that asks for your login for other sites (ping.fm, anyone?) But, I don’t think it’s a phishing attack. What I think it is, is a wake-up call alerting us to how easy social engineering could steal your passwords for malicious purposes…
Don’t many applications on Facebook also ’steal’ our id and password too?