Twitter’s 140 character limit hasn’t really stopped people to share all kinds of stuff through the micro-blogging platform. First there were dedicated photo services like Twitpic, then video sites like Twiddeo, and now there are all kinds of Twitter file sharing services popping up everywhere.

One that has gotten a lot of attention in recent days is Filetwt. The company behind it did a bit of PR for its service, and it quickly paid off: Mashable, Readwriteweb and Zeropaid all did positive reviews of FileTwt, with reviewers calling the service “handy”, “quick and painless” and “true P2P.” However, FileTwt isn’t any of these things.

The service currently uploads files to Rapidshare, where most users have to wait half a minute or longer before being able to download it. Files uploaded this way can also only be downloaded 10 times max, so you better don’t have too many followers. Then there is the fact that FileTwt seems to spam your entire twitter address book with obnoxious ad messages if you happen to click on the wrong button.

The worst thing however is that Filetwt makes users enter their Twittter username and password – a completely unnecessary and highly insecure way of authentication, given the fact that Twitter supports OAuth. I really can’t recommend using this service to anyone in its current form. Read more »