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Why is it that if I try to unlock a chapter with a tweet it wants access to: Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Updat

Why is it that if I try to unlock a chapter with a tweet it wants access to: Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your profile. Post Tweets for you. Seems a little excessive. Edit: Link to screenshot - http://imgur.com/a/rAO0d http://imgur.com/a/rAO0d

bevacqua 10y ago
Author here. Excellent question! That's because Twitter doesn't offer fine-grained control over what permissions you request. The website that asks for that stuff is open-source[1], though, so you can take a look at what it does (just send out a single tweet). If you still feel uneasy about granting me access to tweet through your account, that's perfectly understandable, and I have two options that may work for you: - Revoke access right after you authorize the app. The tweet will still be sent out, and you will still keep your access to the HTML chapters. Since I don't get access to your DMs, there's no harm nor potential harm done. - Just read the book on GitHub[2]. It isn't as pretty as the HTML version, but it works well enough and alleviates your security concerns. [1]: http://github.com/ponyfoo/ponyfoo http://github.com/ponyfoo/ponyfoo [2]: https://github.com/mjavascript/practical-es6 https://github.com/mjavascript/practical-es6
- brudgers 10y ago
  I'm not sure that the benefit of sending out a few Tweets outweighs the ill will among the book's potential audience requesting Twitter account access creates. It seems like a distraction based on the 'Twitter thing' dominating the discussion here in lieu of a conversation about the book's content and value to the reader. Personally, I'm more likely to give attention to someone's organic Tweet than autogenerated marketing because it implies that the book is good at being a book. I don't really care about books that are good at social media and SEO. In purely product terms, company's that care more about their brand than my 'brand' don't garner a high level of trust. Good luck.
  - bevacqua 10y ago
    I'm not a company, and besides four comments on HN, there's been over 400 people sharing a single tweet to get access to the HTML version of the book. Considering that I'm giving five books away entirely for free, asking for a single tweet isn't that high of a bar, to be honest. I don't mind a few people being annoyed by it, particularly because I can point those people to GitHub and be done with it :)
- danso 10y ago
  I have to second others' concerns. Not because I distrust you -- in fact, because of your other contributions to JS development, I'm happy to spread the word...but that's the thing, I would already tweet about this on my own. So would most people in this sphere who have Twitter accounts. And these people also happen to be the kind to really be anal about giving app access. And other free books (Zed Shaw's, for example) give free HTML access while enjoying popularity through social network sharing, so mandatory tweeting is not a requirement for word-of-mouth success.
dabernathy89 10y ago
I just went through the process and I'm not a fan - I thought it would let me compose the Tweet, didn't realize it was going to send out a prewritten one immediately (no confirmation).

bevacqua 10y ago

Author here. Excellent question! That's because Twitter doesn't offer fine-grained control over what permissions you request. The website that asks for that stuff is open-source[1], though, so you can take a look at what it does (just send out a single tweet). If you still feel uneasy about granting me access to tweet through your account, that's perfectly understandable, and I have two options that may work for you: - Revoke access right after you authorize the app. The tweet will still be sent out, and you will still keep your access to the HTML chapters. Since I don't get access to your DMs, there's no harm nor potential harm done. - Just read the book on GitHub[2]. It isn't as pretty as the HTML version, but it works well enough and alleviates your security concerns. [1]: http://github.com/ponyfoo/ponyfoo http://github.com/ponyfoo/ponyfoo [2]: https://github.com/mjavascript/practical-es6 https://github.com/mjavascript/practical-es6

brudgers 10y ago
I'm not sure that the benefit of sending out a few Tweets outweighs the ill will among the book's potential audience requesting Twitter account access creates. It seems like a distraction based on the 'Twitter thing' dominating the discussion here in lieu of a conversation about the book's content and value to the reader. Personally, I'm more likely to give attention to someone's organic Tweet than autogenerated marketing because it implies that the book is good at being a book. I don't really care about books that are good at social media and SEO. In purely product terms, company's that care more about their brand than my 'brand' don't garner a high level of trust. Good luck.
- bevacqua 10y ago
  I'm not a company, and besides four comments on HN, there's been over 400 people sharing a single tweet to get access to the HTML version of the book. Considering that I'm giving five books away entirely for free, asking for a single tweet isn't that high of a bar, to be honest. I don't mind a few people being annoyed by it, particularly because I can point those people to GitHub and be done with it :)
danso 10y ago
I have to second others' concerns. Not because I distrust you -- in fact, because of your other contributions to JS development, I'm happy to spread the word...but that's the thing, I would already tweet about this on my own. So would most people in this sphere who have Twitter accounts. And these people also happen to be the kind to really be anal about giving app access. And other free books (Zed Shaw's, for example) give free HTML access while enjoying popularity through social network sharing, so mandatory tweeting is not a requirement for word-of-mouth success.

dabernathy89 10y ago

I just went through the process and I'm not a fan - I thought it would let me compose the Tweet, didn't realize it was going to send out a prewritten one immediately (no confirmation).