Text 22 Mar Cash Gordon or why you shouldn’t use unmoderated tweet feeds

This story in the Guardian it a great example of what can go wrong when you use an unmoderated Twitter feed on your site. Handing your homepage over to the general public is risky for anyone but it you are a political party then you are asking for trouble! There have been many examples of this before such as the New Skittles homepage fun that happened last year but I found this one particularly funny, especially as they paid a lot for a site that was a rehash of a dubious pressure group campaign. I have advised against using anything but account fields in the past since the skittles thing, its good to be reminded why.

The moral of this story, think about what you are doing …. carefully!


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