Twitter takes flight from LinkedIn after password breach
Business-networking site LinkedIn has announced that it will no longer be partnering with Twitter to sync updates from one site to the other.
Twiiter flies from LinkedIn
The break appears to be Twitter's doing. On its blog on Friday Twitter said it was no longer allowing third-party developers to use its content in ways that mimic the main Twitter experience… a while later LinkedIn posted a blog of its own announcing that it will no longer display tweets, to comply with Twitter's policy.
Commented Salvador Rodriguez in the LA Times, "That's bad news for LinkedIn, since so much of its users' content comes from Twitter."
One theory aired by Mashable : Twitter wanted to separate itself from Linkedin after the recent password breach in which 6 million LinkedIn passwords were stolen.
LinkedIn users can still create updates on Twitter and click a button to share to Twitter as well, but the the reverse is no longer possible, reports Mashable. The partnership had been on the go since 2009.
As well as the password theft, LinkedIn was hit recently with a $5 million lawsuit by a user who claimed LinkedIn deceived its more than 160 million members by having a security policy “in clear contradiction of accepted industry standards for database security.”