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It always scares me when I go to 'log in with twitter' and it tells me "$APP wants permission to ... update your feed." I always hit DENY and forget the service if that happens.

Maybe I'm being harsh, and the app doesn't actually want to tweet in my name, but twitter doesn't allow it to request read-only access. Still, the permissions as displayed are clearly not what I want to grant, and I don't get to veto only the update ability.

I would rather not use a service than offer it the possibility of spamming in my name, and I have made that choice a few times now.

Just as bad, in my mind. But I could be alone on that.

I disagree. All your Twitter data is public* anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem. And twitter makes it so much easier than Facebook to disable/disconnect an app from your account.

*Unless you make tweets private. But even then, your followers and followees are still public.

It's not the Twitter data I care about, or what happens to the Twitter data. It's not even the difficulty of creating a throwaway Twitter account. I just personally prefer to keep all of my accounts segregated from each other, each for their own assigned purpose, is all.

You are not alone.

Much easier to have a throw-away Twitter account than FB.

I would prefer a twitter authentication.