> I hope Twitter will reconsider these changes.  With My Tweeple, I was
> able to provide a preview of a user's updates by displaying the page
> in an iframe.  It was very convenient for the user to review someone's
> tweets before deciding to follow someone.  It also appears that
> Twummize.com no longer works (one of my favorite simple mashups of
> Twitter and Twitter Search).  Forcing an app to hit the API to
> recreate a page that already exists on Twitter.com seems like a bad
> thing for Twitter.

Do you dispute, though, that having (possibly an authenticated session of)
Twitter in a dependent iframe was an exploitable insecurity? I'm not sure
how they could have dealt with the problem any other way.

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