There has been a small but vocal brouhaha brought to light by chatty Robert Scoble over Twply, a new Twitter-to-email service which recently launched. The problem started out as the service seemingly spamming Twitter but the conversation has quickly changed gears in to a full-fledged Twitter security incident.

As part of a means of promoting the service, framed in the context of “supporting” Twply, when you first sign-up for the service it sends the following tweet from your Twitter account:

Just started using http://twply.com/ to get my @replies via email. Neat stuff!

Twply clearly states on their front page, directly beneath the Twitter username and password fields, “Support Twply on your first login?” followed by a couple of radio buttons: Yep, go ahead! (default) and No thanks!.

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