Cool New Toy for Twitter – Needs Security Tweak

Twitter Grader has come out with a new bookmarklet tool, TwitSnip. “TwitSnip is a simple tool for posting small snips to Twitter. It lets you “quote” text on any web page. It does nifty things like looking up the @user for the website and linking back to the source.”

It does just what it says it does. Like the Friendfeed or Google Reader bookmarklet, you can highlight a section of text on any web page, click on the bookmarklet and the tool will do the rest. It inserts the (tiny) URL, lets you know how many characters you have left (or are over), and even looks up the twitter account associated with that website (if there is one). Hit post and it gets posted on your twitter account.

This is all neat-o and useful, but like the toys being sold this holiday season, our Twitter toys should be safe too. Alas, TwitSnip is lacking in security. After the twitterank broo-ha-ha, the fact that TwitSnip requires your password could be a little off-putting for some. Of course, as a posting tool, this is necessary n’est pas? But I also noticed that while collecting my username and password, the site wasn’t secure. Just plain ‘ol http. Granted, this is a very early iteration of TwitSnip, but this is the #1 thing I’d like to see improved on what is otherwise a fab new tool.

I am no developer, so I may be showing my arse here, but surely this is fixable. ? So how about it Twitter Grader – let’s see Twitsnip v2, flame-retardant an no choking hazards.