In defence of NYCC

[ajr]

So. People on the internet are complaining that their Twitters were 'hacked' by NYCC and made them tweet things without their knowledge

Comments

[shnetti]

I certainly agree with you that the real story is what you say.

But I'm also amazed that anyone would agree to their Twitter/Facebook/whatever being used in that way (even though apparently, people do, and not just in this case), simply because it's so contrary to how I use mine. I'd also like to see how clear and unambiguous this "opt-in" was. Or maybe I'm just giving people too much credit for knowing what they actually signed up for (at the very least, if you didn't read what you were signing up for, that's your problem).

I don't understand your sport metaphor at all, but there's no need to bother explaining it to me. :-)

[ajr]

I'm also amazed that anyone would agree to their Twitter/Facebook/whatever being used in that wayI expect it's the same mindset that causes people to panic and click any button whenever any kind of error pops up, be it on their computer, their phone, or their TV-DVR. For some reason, most people's imperative is to make the message go away - what it says? Not important, it just shouldn't be there, get rid of it