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by poopicus 4601 days ago
Why don't they authenticate with their own Twitter account? I'm not sure why they would need mine.
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sreejata 4601 days ago
The Twitter API calls are rate limited and it would be impossible to handle any meaningful traffic.
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subv3rsion 4601 days ago
Feels like click bait to me. They could use their own authentication token to use the Twitter API. Not mine.
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eli 4601 days ago
Click bait in what sense? They are only requesting access to read (not post) tweets.

And the reason is because that's how Twitter sort of forces you to do it with their API rate limiting.

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