Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery(crowdwoo.com)
crowdwoo.com
Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery
http://crowdwoo.com/
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I think they should give credit to Dave Winer for the idea.
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop...
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop...
They do credit me, there's a link at the bottom of the page to the piece where I describe the idea. I should probably do one of my own (but I'm busy with other stuff).
I've joined in just out of interest, if I lose I'll follow the winners for at least a month. I never use twitter anyway, and to be honest, if I won the current 'jackpot' of 247 followers, I still wouldn't use twitter much :)
Haha, nice. I have a 1.6% chance of winning, at the moment...
Kind of a cool concept. Let's see if I'm the lucky winnarrrr!
I guess the cool thing is that those are all basically HN readers. Would be a pretty solid HN user following.
This application wants to post tweets on your behalf? Umm, no.
No, it will not post tweets on your behalf. It will automatically follow the three winners of the lottery, though. That is all.
"This application will be able to:
* Read Tweets from your timeline.
* Update your profile.
* Post Tweets on your behalf."
* Read Tweets from your timeline.
* Update your profile.
* Post Tweets on your behalf."
I think that's just what he's capable of doing via twitter's api. He's stated, though, he's only going to have others follow as the guidelines suggested and not post tweets on your behalf.
Lanyrd is suffering from this misconception as well. Twitter recently updated the copy on their OAuth sign-in flow to specifically list the abilities that an application would have. Unfortunately, since they don't provide finely grained permissions it isn't actually possible to request just the write permissions your app needs. This leaves users thinking that our app will post tweets on their behalf, when we're actually just asking for write access so we can provide a "follow" button on our site.
I don't see how to select a finer grain of control over what Crowdwoo needs, via Twitter's site, though. I've selected Read & Write access, because I need to be able to follow the winners. If there is a way to de-select the ability to post tweets and read timeline then I'd gladly do that. I'll continue to inspect the Twitter docs.
I slightly want to opt in just to see it unfold, but frankly I don't want to follow three extra people, and I don't want a bunch of people who don't know who I am following me, so I think I'd end up annoyed with the result either way. Nice idea, though.