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Comment by jdludlow | Hacker News Reader

There's no way in the world I'm going to sign up for this, regardless of who you have on there.

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.
    Access your direct messages until June 30th, 2011.

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There's a checkbox to tweet to your followers when you post an AMA or when you ask a question.

I don't know if there's a way to request just the ability to tweet. But we don't use any of those other permissions.

If you don't use them don't ask for them

I didn't see a way to do that, but if there is one I'll implement it soon.

agreed, who'd be dumb enough to sign up for that...I could see doing that if that was required for actually using some app...but in this case it's just a way for them to spam your followers to promote their site

Why does this application need this much access?

You give Twitter all those permissions too.

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