Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts

Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by ohashi on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:20AM (#16280521)

I was signing up for your service until I saw the permissions your app wants. Permission to update my profile? See my DMs? It doesn't explain anywhere I could find why it needs these permissions.

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Re:Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts by ErikAugust on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:56PM (#16285280)

We do not have any application functionality relating to modifying profiles.

We do request access so you can send Direct Messages from your dashboard. We are considering removing that functionality for the sake of privacy.

Unfortunately, the Twitter application permission model is not granular:

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/...

We would prefer to just have write functionalities and not read, but this is not possible in their model.

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