Google Storage is so much cheaper than Dropbox.

That looked like controlled demolition to me. There's no way an airplane could cause a collapse like that!

Your experience with one phone does not give you valid reason to make conclusions about all smart phones.

Or just hold your eyes still on it.

But can you search twitter for information about a local tornado from your dumbphone via SMS?

And how are the apps for dumbphones? That's why they're called dumbphones, not because of their (supposedly) superior call quality.

Of my friends who don't have smartphones 100% don't have them because they are too poor to pay for a data plan.

Pretty smart marketing. They've managed to make people feel like their product is new and lust-worthy even though it's two years old.

Being "first in line" at least implies that there might be a closed beta period. With the rumors of Instagram being so worried about their infrastructure holding up the possibility does not seem that far fetched.

Dubai is a long way from Salt Lake City.

(Citation Needed)

lol. commenting to promote.

Some hundreds of thousands of years ago, some alien race sent this out as their version of our own Voyager probe.

You can see what permissions Gawker gets on your account when you link it. There are basically none. There's really nothing to worry about here.

Just tested it and yup, I was logged into other sites that I wouldn't normally be logged in to. Bonus!

90% of the concerns brought up in the comments are answered in the post. Read before you react, people.

You need to rethink all of that. Authentication via oauth is more secure and allows you to manages your permissions. It does increase the value of your google/twitter credentials, but now you only need to worry about being secure in one places rather than two, making it more likely that you will choose a unique and…

You are not using your credentials. You are authenticating with oauth. Gawker doesn't get to know your gmail login and they don't get access to your gmail account. This is MORE secure, because if a hacker gained access to oauth information it would be worthless to them. That's the whole point of oauth. Also, you see…

It will still work. All Gawker wants is for you to have a valid account on one of those services as a fingerprint for your Gawker account. Your gawker account remains the same as long as it is attached to *any* account from those other services.

How hard is it to be anonymous on Twitter these days?