Last night there was a minor fiasco when hundreds of thousands of people suddenly found that their tweets were being published to their Facebook status without their explicit authorization. The only way to fix the problem was to remove or block the Twitter application from within Facebook.
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UPDATE: Facebook at fault for unauthorized link with Twitter account
July 30th, 2009 · Comments · Pain, Twitter, User Experience
Twitter updating Facebook status without permission
July 29th, 2009 · Comments · Pain, Twitter, User Experience
Update: For the latest information, please read UPDATE: Facebook at fault for unauthorized link with Twitter account.
[If Facebook suddenly started publishing your tweets, go into Facebook and REMOVE or BLOCK the Twitter application. That's currently the only fix.]
Just an hour ago, I got a notification that someone had commented on my Facebook status so I [...]
Interviewed for “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster”
March 30th, 2009 · Comments · Articles, User Experience
Big thanks to Caroline McCarthy for interviewing me for her latest CNET article, “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster” featured in her column The Social.
Caroline asked me what I thought of the new Facebook homepage redesign, as well as Google’s apparent obsession with data (above good design, as exposed by designer Douglas Bowman in [...]
Upcoming Posts
July 18th, 2008 · Comments · Blogging
Just to whet your appetite, here are some posts I’ll be writing in the next week:
The new look of Facebook profiles
10 worthwhile Twitter bots
Thank you letters
Please don’t stalk me (geosocial networking)
If you have any thoughts or questions about these topics that you’d like to see addressed, just leave a comment and I’ll do my best [...]
The Stranger Aversion
June 5th, 2008 · Comments · Social Networking
Social media has created a world in which everyone is interconnected. Forget six degrees of separation; we’re probably down to three. So have we completely lost the notion of a stranger?
Charlie O’Donnell, CEO of Path 101, recently wrote a post on his personal blog about the shift towards using social systems to connect with pre-existing [...]
