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by soemarko 4846 days ago
Twitter did this to themselves. Without the limit, this information is worthless. It'll make sense for an app like Tweetro[1] to add custom token as a feature or easter egg.

1: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/11/3631108/tweetro-user-toke...

2 comments

> Without the limit, this information is worthless.

Not true. Say you have a malicious Twitter client app that posts "Lose Weight In 30 days! <link>." Normally, Twitter could shut this offending app down by rejecting their client ID/secret; if they're using the official Twitter creds though, doing so would shut down all official Twitter apps in the process.

They already have spam systems in place to catch repetitive spam tweets and block them.