Why I’ll wait to try Twitblogs
Dan Thornton | December 14, 2008There’s a new service, Twitblogs, which allows you to post without being limited to 140 characters, include image tags, embed videos, and include urls of images and audio files – and it also updates Twitter for you. (There’s a write-up on Mashable with some very interesting comments around the legalities of the appearance etc).
But the flipside is that the founder Sam Sethi, has some previous noteriety, after previous startup Blognation closed. Michael Arrington writes about both Twitblogs, and links to his own experience with Sethi, who is a former editor of Techcrunch UK.
While I wouldn’t take anyone’s view on what happened as unbiased, and don’t know the details to comment, Arrington does make a couple of very good points about Twitblogs:
- You need to disclose your Twitter username – and importantly your password (something that’s been raised as an issue with other applications)
- Although a privacy policy page has been added, the site still hasn’t got any Terms and Conditions listed – the Terms at the bottom of the page isn’t linked. And although most of us may be less than thorough when looking at the Ts and Cs, there are times when they become vitally important.
Personally I’ll wait and see what other responses there are, until I get a chance to use the 140char test account – but in the meantime, you can always see the latest thoughts, as ever, via Twitter Search.
Thank you for taking the time to talk about us,
Twitblogs | December 15, 2008Thank you for taking the time to talk about us, but you really do need to look at how much everyone else is talking up the product and yes look at Twitter Search because 10,000+ people have tried us and enjoyed the service.
The vast majority clearly think it a positive step forward for Twitter and have trusted the site like any other 3rd party site of Twitter. Also if I may say Sam is not the owner or founder of the group. He is a member of the team of which there are nearly 10 of us.
Do not fear the site without a TOS, many many 3rd Party sites are without a TOS and most never include one. We on the other hand will have a basic one up soon as we just didn’t realize we would get so much press.
Please notice that as much as TC talks badly about one of our team members he actually never contacted myself to talk about Twitblogs, he never asked any questions especially with regards to Sam Sethi’s role was within Twitblogs.
Also it never got told we were testing at the time the site ‘got out’ and that was why we had no Privacy Policy and still are working on our TOS.
Cheers
Roger
Thanks for the comment and your response - as I
Dan Thornton | December 15, 2008Thanks for the comment and your response – as I said I don’t know the details, so can’t comment at all on what happened – and I’m happy to test the site shortly.
I’m glad to see the privacy policy and TOS are in progress – I don’t think it’s necessarily something that should be left until last, but the fact that it will be in existence is a good step!
I look forward to seeing what happens with Twitblogs, and trying it for myself!
[...] and more to do with the well-known-for-wrong-reasons Sam Sethi being employed
Twitblogs: Hype, function, and opinon « | December 18, 2008[...] and more to do with the well-known-for-wrong-reasons Sam Sethi being employed on the team. Issues around privacy and password security seem to now be getting addressed, however originally there was no privacy disclosure or promises [...]