How one dude used the foursquare API to create multiple users who checked in at multiple places – often weird ones and even more often "stealing" the mayorship of real users.

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• Google Torrent Search – Useful.
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As more details become available, it seems what happened is that a Twitter administrator (i.e., employee) gave their password to a 3rd party site because their API requires it, which was then used to compromise Twitter’s admin interface.

Aus der sehr interessanten OAuth/Twitter-Diskussion bei Simon Willison.