Comment 10 for bug 627871

It isn't actually framing the website, it is displaying the whole website, just another browser. Twitter's definition of framing is using an iframe, embedded in another page. Twitter is very focused on other web applications that use twitter, not really desktop clients. So they not only don't cater to our use case technically, their terminology is different too.

gwibber-accounts displays the full web page, just like any other browser. As far as phishing attacks go, the user has to tell twitter they are trusting gwibber/ubuntu as a client anyway, if they don't trust the application they wouldn't even get that far. It isn't like some random window that pops up when a user clicks on a link in a web page pretending to be something else. This is a desktop service, which the user has to choose to run, in doing so they are already trusting it.