If you have a blog and a Twitter account then it’s nice to feed your tweets onto the front page of your blog. It can be an effective way to let your friends see what you’re saying in both places.
If, however, you later delete your Twitter account then it’s probably a good idea to remove the widget from your blog.
There’s one very important reason for doing this. Eventually Twitter will allow your deleted account name to be recycled. And then someone else will be able to post tweets which automatically appear on your blog.
Say, for example, you’re an MP who has made a few enemies in her time. And say that you’ve flounced away from Twitter claiming that it is a “sewer”. In that situation you probably don’t want to leave a way open for people who don’t like you to post whatever they want on your web site.
I mean, if you’re currently campaigning about abstinence and sex education, you probably don’t want your web site to say:
I think sex before marriage should be discouraged. It’s better if at least one of you is married, doesn’t matter who to particularly.
Or:
I suppose with fisting there’s no risk of pregnancy.. ..maybe kids should be taught about that?
Sometimes I wonder if the money that Nadine Dorries spent on “PR” wouldn’t have been better spent on IT consultancy.
They’ll fix it eventually, so Tim has captured it for us.
Update: And it’s gone. That was slightly quicker than I expected. I’m now expecting a blog post from her accusing someone (probably Tim) of hacking her computer.