On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:01:08 -0400 Dossy Shiobara <do...@panoptic.com> wrote:
> Easy revenue model: sell lookups from email -> twitter ID and twitter > ID -> email. That's a fair response to an earlier thread about looking up the Twitter ID by email address. The message to which you were responding had to do with verify credentials. It's was a fair question as the implications are for more subtle. Here's the real threat model... Provide a service that uses your OAuth key and logs the response to "verify credentials" calls. You obtain valid email addresses and names that people actually use to self-identify. If you use, misuse, abuse or resell these to third parties, it is traced back to Twitter - not you - and you have a very high quality list of names and email addresses that can help your spam mailing score well on some features of some content filters - including the human eye. What makes it work is that, as far as the user knows, your service never asked for an email address. Chris Babcock
