Heads up -- Spoutible (one of many wannabe Twitter replacements) had a VERY leaky API

OK, that's... bad.

More reason why once you start treating something as a platform of record, that you shouldn't let some idiot fly in and crap all over it. If there's any solace, there's probably only going to be one or a small handful of survivors in the Twitter-like space, and it was already unlikely that spoutible was going to be it.