The Problem With Twply Is You Can’t Turn It Off
Bloggers are enraged over a day old service called Twply that lets Twitter users forward messages that include their user name to their email address.
The first round of complaints centered on spam, because Twply asks if it can send a Twitter message from your account saying that you’ve tried the service (and lots of people are). Then someone noticed that the service was sold for $1,200 immediately after launching.
Neither of these issues really bother me. The message Twply sends out is a standard practice with new web services, although they aren’t very clear in their description of what’s going to happen when they ask permission: "Support Twply on your first login?" And with regard to the sale, meh. I don’t know or particularly trust the people behind Twply, so it doesn’t matter to me that they’re selling it to yet another unknown person or entity.