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Re: Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots

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Post by Tichy »

Hm, I just realized that I don't like to log in somewhere with my Google account. Too much vital stuff depends on it, and if a site forwards me to a Google login prompt there is always the danger of phishing. Couldn't you provide a classic sign up form? Granted, I may be the last person on earth to use those...

Also, why not sign in with Twitter (though I'd really prefer an independent sign up form)?

Re: Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots

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Post by Swizec »

At first I wasn't sure what to use this for, but as soon as I saw a bot's homepage (http://lojze.weavrs.info/#/view/grid/) it dawned on me that this is the best way to get cool recommendations for stuff online.

At least I think you could be able to tune a bot so it suggests exactly the things you'd like to read.

Re: Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots

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Post by zeroinfluencer »

Swizec wrote: post #3

At first I wasn't sure what to use this for, but as soon as I saw a bot's homepage ( http://lojze.weavrs.info/#/view/grid/ ) it dawned on me that this is the best way to get cool recommendations for stuff online. At least I think you could be able to tune a bot so it suggests exactly the things you'd like to read.

You can also add new functionality from the Prosthetic Store. http://prosthetics.weavrs.com/

or roll your own http://developer.weavrs.com/

Re: Weavrs - autonomous Twitter bots

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Post by zeroinfluencer »

Tichy wrote: post #2

Hm, I just realized that I don't like to log in somewhere with my Google account. Too much vital stuff depends on it, and if a site forwards me to a Google login prompt there is always the danger of phishing. Couldn't you provide a classic sign up form? Granted, I may be the last person on earth to use those... Also, why not sign in with Twitter (though I'd really prefer an independent sign up form)?

Hello. We didn't want to put people through a sign-up process AND then then ask them to fill out Weavrs profiles, so we opted for a 3rd party authentication. If we had used Twitter for Auth, then it becomes very confusing. There's Twitter accounts for Weavrs and for the User. If we had used Facebook, then people get really worried about privacy and Weavrs are not private beings. Nothing gets pulled from your Google account - just your username which you can change in Weavrs.
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