How we treat your authentication at TweetPivot

A few weeks ago I posted an article on my personal blog entitled 'Social Network Authorisation Needs to Change'. In it I vented my frustration at the liberties some 3rd-party Twitter sites take with the trust given to them by interested users. Today, TweetPivot has launched a new feature that, in order to be used, requires our users to grant us access to their accounts. So, I wanted to publicly declare what we will and won't do with the authorisation you grant us to your Twitter account.

What we will do

1. We will tell your account to follow @tweetpivot during login if, and only if, you tell us that's OK.
2. We will read the names and member counts of lists, both public and private, that you have created when you need this information to make informed decisions.
3. We will create new lists, either public or private, upon your specific request.
4. We will add users to lists you create when requested to do so.

What we will NOT do

1. We will NOT post unsolicited tweets in your name.
2. We will NOT access any part of you Twitterverse not mentioned in the previous list.
3. We will NOT retain the authorisation details beyond a specific session. In other words, when you close your browser TweetPivot's access is terminated.

As more features are added to TweetPivot we will need to amend these 2 lists; but we will do so publicly.

We hope that this starts a positive trend followed by all 3rd-party Twitter apps to declare, and stick to, their intentions.