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anc84
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Fixing Twitter
Hm, why does that site need my authorisation to read MY profile when I can use it also to audit other people's accounts? A scam to get auth?
r1ch
on Sept 7, 2015
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Twitter requires auth for every API call, even reading public information. They would burn out their own API quota pretty fast if they didn't have each user grant them a read-only token.
anc84
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Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
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