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I was going to sign up but the Twitter oauth asked me things to approve that I am wondering if you are really using or need. Like authorizing your web app to change my profile and read my DM. Is your web app changing profiles or reading DM? If not, skip that in the approval process.

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Honestly, I was not aware of that! We certainly don't need to modify your profile or read your direct messages.

The only thing we use it for is to check the mentions and follows so far.

Thank you for your help!

What I don't know, is if you can choose the permissions. So maybe this is standard with Twitter oAuth. I know with the Facebook one you can choose which permissions you want to ask the user.

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