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Re:Show HN: How much can you tell about someone from their ... by subv3rsion on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @02:19PM (#6684794)
Feels like click bait to me. They could use their own authentication token to use the Twitter API. Not mine.
Re:Show HN: How much can you tell about someone from their ... by eli on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @02:50PM (#6685001)
Click bait in what sense? They are only requesting access to read (not post) tweets.

And the reason is because that's how Twitter sort of forces you to do it with their API rate limiting.