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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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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.