Comments on: Storify launches a redesign, but the threat of competition from Twitter still looms http://gigaom.com/2012/11/21/storify-launches-a-redesign-but-the-threat-of-competition-from-twitter-still-looms/ Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: M. Nuh http://gigaom.com/2012/11/21/storify-launches-a-redesign-but-the-threat-of-competition-from-twitter-still-looms/#comment-1199491 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:58:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=587312#comment-1199491 “…or the best photo of the Israeli attack on Gaza”. For God’s sake, they killing innocent people, best photo indeed!

]]> By: Henley Wing http://gigaom.com/2012/11/21/storify-launches-a-redesign-but-the-threat-of-competition-from-twitter-still-looms/#comment-1199124 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:16:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=587312#comment-1199124 Hmm.. if they see tweets as public data(which it should be theoretically, I mean Google scrapes it), then this poses less of a risk to them. Honestly, I don’t know we don’t have an username/password authorization to bypass the Twitter API. For instance, rather than someone authorizing thru the standard API way, you just ask the user for their user/password, and you can use Twitter through some headless browser.

I know there’s a security reason for it, and it seems “primitive”. But there was a company that did this (not for Twitter), still doing this, has 5 million+ users… and oh yeah got acquired for $100 million dollars by a Fortune 500 Company. That company is… Mint.com. So why don’t more developers do this?

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