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My initial reaction is: "Scumbag permissions":

For Twitter signup:

> This application will be able to:

> Read Tweets from your timeline.

> See who you follow, and follow new people.

> Update your profile.

> Post Tweets for you.

> See your email address.

For Google it wants to see my email contacts.

This is very off-putting and makes me wary about giving you my email address.

The privacy policy (which alleviates some of my fears) should be linked much closer to the signup box rather than at the bottom of the page.

Also: it's asking for a password in a way that doesn't trigger Chrome's password manager.

Hi Dan, thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately Twitter's permission scoping isn't the greatest in the world, the only thing we can do is be either Read Only or Read & Write. We have a feature on our platform that let's you invite friends, and that feature needs the Write Privilege, since we can't be Read on Sign-Up and Write on Friend Finder, we have to be Write from the beginning.

Same invite friends feature uses the google contacts, but Google allows us to ask for additional privileges when we need them, we just forgot to take them out of the request for the Sign-Up, we just fixed that. Thanks! :D

We'll also look into Chrome's password manager issue, and fix that as well :D

Besides all of this, what do you think of the site? :)

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