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Why does this need access to my Twitter account to run? Can't it just get the publicly-facing information from the Twitter API?

pykler 13y ago
it uses your oauth to do the twitter search. It only looks at public facing info, but due to the amount of traffic we are getting each user needs to use their twitter account to get tweets. Once you grab the info though we cache it so you can share it freely without having to login. Check out mine for example http://fingerprint.leadsift.com/?username=pykler http://fingerprint.leadsift.com/?username=pykler
dustyreagan 13y ago
All Twitter API methods require authentication now-a-days. https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api
- poopicus 13y ago
  Why don't they authenticate with their own Twitter account? I'm not sure why they would need mine.
  - sreejata 13y ago
    The Twitter API calls are rate limited and it would be impossible to handle any meaningful traffic.
  - subv3rsion 13y ago
    Feels like click bait to me. They could use their own authentication token to use the Twitter API. Not mine.
    - eli 13y ago
      Click bait in what sense? They are only requesting access to read (not post) tweets. And the reason is because that's how Twitter sort of forces you to do it with their API rate limiting.
CWIZO 13y ago
At the very least they should seriously limit to privileges they are requesting. Why do you need to be able to post as me, view my password(?!?!?) and update my profile?
- avree 13y ago
  You are listing the items in the "This application WILL NOT BE ABLE TO" section. Obviously, no application gets to view your Twitter password... The actual app requests read access to your timeline and followers list.
  - CWIZO 13y ago
    Ah my bad. Thanks for correcting me :)
me_bx 13y ago
This might simply be an easy way for the company providing the app to get a lot of twitter users access tokens, to be used in their commercial product in order to get around the twitter API rate limits... LeadSift requires a read-only access so it should not affect you too much.

pykler 13y ago

it uses your oauth to do the twitter search. It only looks at public facing info, but due to the amount of traffic we are getting each user needs to use their twitter account to get tweets. Once you grab the info though we cache it so you can share it freely without having to login. Check out mine for example http://fingerprint.leadsift.com/?username=pykler http://fingerprint.leadsift.com/?username=pykler

dustyreagan 13y ago

All Twitter API methods require authentication now-a-days. https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api

poopicus 13y ago
Why don't they authenticate with their own Twitter account? I'm not sure why they would need mine.
- sreejata 13y ago
  The Twitter API calls are rate limited and it would be impossible to handle any meaningful traffic.
- subv3rsion 13y ago
  Feels like click bait to me. They could use their own authentication token to use the Twitter API. Not mine.
  - eli 13y ago
    Click bait in what sense? They are only requesting access to read (not post) tweets. And the reason is because that's how Twitter sort of forces you to do it with their API rate limiting.

CWIZO 13y ago

At the very least they should seriously limit to privileges they are requesting. Why do you need to be able to post as me, view my password(?!?!?) and update my profile?

avree 13y ago
You are listing the items in the "This application WILL NOT BE ABLE TO" section. Obviously, no application gets to view your Twitter password... The actual app requests read access to your timeline and followers list.
- CWIZO 13y ago
  Ah my bad. Thanks for correcting me :)

me_bx 13y ago

This might simply be an easy way for the company providing the app to get a lot of twitter users access tokens, to be used in their commercial product in order to get around the twitter API rate limits... LeadSift requires a read-only access so it should not affect you too much.