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Ask HN: Can Twitter determine your client via api calls made?
I'm using twitter as an example, but I'd like to know more generally as well.
From twitters end how do they tell the difference between:
1) API call made from a user on the website
2) API call made from a user on the mac client
3) API call made from a user on the ios app
4) API call made from a an application I have built
Cheers.
- mootothemax 14y agoEach application - their website included - uses its own set of API credentials to make calls, thus identifying a client is trivial. Pedantic edit: version 1 of the API supported some anonymous calls, but that version is very close to being dropped. All API calls to version 1.1, though, must be authenticated.