I had an interesting experience yesterday that illustrated to me the danger of building Twitter-based web applications without seriously considering the consequences of what you are doing. It was a perfect low-consequence wake-up call on the incredible responsibility web application programmers have.
It was basically a case of my Twitter stream being SPAMmed by an application that I didn’t know existed and don’t really care about. This is pretty important to me since I’m developing the “for fun” side project Tweetscore, which might have some day done the same thing.