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Or twitter.

Honestly, It's easier than making people sign up for an account (safer too, since they don't leave an unhashed password in their database)

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Or twitter:

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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.

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SRSLY?

Eh, vote then revoke access to the app.

How do you know it does not immediately utilise those rights?

Please just say use

To me "utilise" has a slightly different meaning that "use". I am not a native speaker though. Is it just a fancy way of saying "use"? I thought it implied "using" an option/feature/opportunity to do something. So one "utilises" that to do something.

Making it very complicated to cast a simple vote.

Ended up not voting because they are asking for way too many Twitter OAuth privileges (including following and posting with my account, plus updating my profile).

Vote then revoke access

Or don't vote. I don't give random apps total access to my Twitter account, even for a short time.

Exactly.

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