Comments on: How to Use Topify Securely http://jccameron.com/2009/05/02/how-to-use-topify-securely/ JC Cameron's take on technology and entrepreneurship Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:35:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JC Cameron http://jccameron.com/2009/05/02/how-to-use-topify-securely/#comment-115 Wed, 06 May 2009 04:31:32 +0000 http://jccameron.com/?p=173#comment-115 Hey Voyager, thanks for the comment and completely agree. If you ALREADY have a gmail account, use the filter method as it is the better choice (in a variety of ways). But, if you don’t have a gmail account yet, this makes things marginally simpler. :)

]]> By: Voyagerfan5761 http://jccameron.com/2009/05/02/how-to-use-topify-securely/#comment-113 Wed, 06 May 2009 02:59:27 +0000 http://jccameron.com/?p=173#comment-113 Interesting solution. I actually didn’t think of using a different Gmail address. I guess it’s OK if you don’t care about being found by email address (so far as I know, only the solution that Chris Messina and I blogged about can preserve that sort of findability).

Thanks for the link!

]]> By: Arik Fraimovich http://jccameron.com/2009/05/02/how-to-use-topify-securely/#comment-111 Sun, 03 May 2009 14:27:04 +0000 http://jccameron.com/?p=173#comment-111 I admit: I didn’t read it all.. just skimmed over.. had the feeling that you probably took care of that point :)

]]> By: JC Cameron http://jccameron.com/2009/05/02/how-to-use-topify-securely/#comment-109 Sun, 03 May 2009 05:48:58 +0000 http://jccameron.com/?p=173#comment-109 Arik, yep, that would be bad. Very bad. :) However, that’s not what it says above…or, I certainly hope it doesn’t.

Step 1: Sign up with Topify USING YOUR REGULAR EMAIL.

I believe that resolves the infinite loop. The correct loop should be:

Twitter ->new Gmail Account -> Topify Account -> Regular Email Account

Which is the same as Chris and Voyager explain except they assumed you already had a Gmail account. So, replace “new Gmail Account” above with “Existing Gmail Account”.

I will highlight that text in bold in the first step because I agree it should be highlighted more than it is now.

]]> By: Arik Fraimovich http://jccameron.com/2009/05/02/how-to-use-topify-securely/#comment-108 Sun, 03 May 2009 04:17:29 +0000 http://jccameron.com/?p=173#comment-108 There’s a slight problem with what you describe here – it will create a sort of a loop:
1. email received from Twitter -> sent to us
2. we send you an email
3. email received from us -> sent to us
4. we send you that email (we forward any email to your Topify address to you, so you get notifications from Twitter support / password reminder)
5. go to step 3 :)

I think a better way will be: setup the account to forward Twitter emails to us as Chris or Voyager explained. Create another rule to forward our notifications to the real address of the user.

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