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		te_chris on April 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Grim Tweeper, easy way to clean up Twitte... 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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