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		stavros on April 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Grim Tweeper, easy way to clean up Twitte... Also, why does every app request permission to write to my Twitter stream, even if it has no business doing that? You're supposed to only read my stream, no?

te_chris on April 4, 2011 [–]

because twitter doesn't granulate permissions like facebook does.

stavros on April 4, 2011 | [–]

Of course it does, just pass "oauth_access_type=read" when calling /oauth/authorize...

Posted here, as nobody seems to know about this:

http://blog.stochastictechnologies.com/gaining-read-only-acc...

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