[jey]

  Authorize Early Nerd to use your account?

  This application will be able to:
    Read Tweets from your timeline.
    See who you follow, and follow new people.
    Update your profile.
    Post Tweets for you.

No thanks.

[pkamali]

Thanks for letting us know this is an issue. We wish the permission settings were more granular in the Twitter API, so we could turn most of this off..

[ryan_s]

AFAIK that's all pretty standard stuff. What are you afraid of?