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That seems to me to be a terrible and Byzantine solution to a very easily resolved problem. So easily resolved in fact that I question whether this is really the reason why or are you harvesting data for some other purpose?

I too never use my facebook or twitter logins for anything unless it's absolutely critical.

It sounds like it could be fun otherwise.

If only there was some other way to implement rate limiting....

Wo don't you just use a captcha?

yeah, I wonder why we didn't think of that option. We will definitely switch to that.

Make sure to resubmit with [FIXED] so I can give it a shot.

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Nope, the social login is just to prevent too many queries. We are planning to switch to Captcha in a day or two instead of social login.

If it's just to prevent too many queries, why does it require such powerful permissions for my Twitter account?

- See who you follow, and follow new people.

- Update your profile.

- Post Tweets for you.