[mkaziz]

Alas for all those twitter permissions it needs. Does it really need to read my tweets and post tweets for me? No thanks.

[detcherry]

I ask for the Twitter connect just to make tweeting from the app easier. Tweets are like this one: https://twitter.com/spolu/status/443117201621413888 Nothing spammy.

[lbr]

I believe you. But I had the same reaction as mkaziz. And was about to comment on this.

So I think the takeaway is that people are turned off by this - and you can convince people on HN that you won't abuse it. But not everywhere.

And, with a million products attempting to take my time - anything that makes me hesitate (like that I have to allow you to "update my profile") is enough to turn me off.

[palakchokshi]

Ok then why not just ask to post tweets on my behalf? why ask for Update your profile., Read my tweets, etc. Not letting any unknown app update my profile. Sorry.

[detcherry]

@lbr @palakchokshi

That's right. I totally understand. The thing is... Twitter permissions aren't very precise.

I just wanted to ask for the permission to write tweets from my app, not to edit your profile. But they don't allow you to do that...

Anyway thanks for the feedback!

[palakchokshi]

I thought it might be something like that. Twitter needs to fix this or developers like you will be facing the consequences of their actions. Facebook's permissions are much more granular.

[lbr]

Interesting... Yeah, that is pretty consistent across other platforms too. Has it always been like this? I hadn't noticed this until recently.

[Doctor_Fegg]

Web intents. You can prepopulate a message but the user has to click 'Tweet'. No need to ask for permissions.

[timdorr]

More specifically, he means using this button: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button

[gk1]

Adding another "me too" to this. Opened the link, so all the Twitter permissions, thought for two seconds, then closed it.