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by ftwinnovations 5275 days ago
Hi Anirudh, Your idea sounds interesting however I cancelled when the Twitter auth screen requested more permission than I'm willing to give this service.

  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.
  
It seems unnecessary to update my profile or post tweets for me. I don't even see why it would need to see who I follow and follow new people. Maybe it's my ignorance of the Twitter API but isn't that something you can restrict on your end?

Most likely this is just an oversight since its your new project you threw together but the HN community is generally pretty cautious about privacy and security.

As far as the landing page, I would definitely suggest a couple of screenshots to convince me why I would want to try out the service and give authorization to the app. It is pretty vague what it does and I still don't know why I would want to see my twitter stream in some unique way.

Good luck and happy coding.

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Thanks for your comment. I guess I need to alter the permission settings but I would need the Posting permissions, in case I want to enable twitter sharing from my app itself.

Here's a screenshot - http://bazinga.in/images/bazinga-screenshot.jpg

Do give it a try and let me know...

Cheers Anirudh