All the decency and respect for boundaries of a PUA, combined with the keenly-honed logic chopping skills of an Scholastic metaphysician? Perfect marketing spokesweasel!
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Nah, these guys are cool. They use words like "for realz" in their registration instructions. Just like all the cool demographics use.
Nothinâ tin-eared-markety-fake about that right there!
Kick ass!
I do not and never will have a Twitter account, so Iâm somewhat ignorant of such things, but is there any reason why youâd link something to your Twitter account other than to have it send tweets in your name? I constantly see apps and websites asking if I want to link them to my nonexistent Twitter account, and Iâve always assumed thatâs what they were going to do.
Many forums, newspapers, magazines, etc, are moving to Twitter or Facebook login because they donât have to deal with the whole login database thing, and Facebook/Twitter supposedly have requirements about using âreal namesâ, which helps promote civility in the forums.
When you log in that way, thereâs usually an option to âshare my comment onâ Facebook or Twitter (with varying levels of obscurity of that setting, depending on the site), that requires you to give permission to that site to post on social media.
Oh yeah, whenever I see those links that go âYour friend X liked this article âWhy flubbers are blubberyâ, click here to readâ, and when you click there it brings you to a permission page that says that said news organization will mine all of your data and make posts on your behalf and have you wash its car on the weekends if you want to read that article, well, I just google the headline instead and read the article without all of that jazz.
Thatâs also why I never ever click the Facebook or Twitter buttons on a website. I always copy the URL down and paste it in manually to avoid any of that nonsense.
Also, this is the first Iâve heard of Twitter have a real names policy. I have a totally fake an unused Twitter account I use for sites that obnoxiously need a login like that.
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