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Why does it want almost full access to my Twitter account?

Read is the bare minimum. I requested write so that people that are helping can send out a tweet from the form to let their followers know that they are taking calls about a certain topic.

It doesn't tweet without the user's consent.

edit: Also, full access includes direct message, which it doesn't request.

Update: Removed write access, just read. Thanks for the feedback.

I would not trust my Twitter account to an outside party. Could you provide other login mechanism? Also I rather liked if it just used microphone as international calls are probably too expensive.

Yep, a regular login is planned. Also looking into adding in browser calls. Just wanted to get it out of the door quick.

You don't need the user to add your app to Twitter to have a tweet link. You could use Twitter's buttons or post a link like:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?source=webclient&text=e...

Yep, that's what I ended up doing a few minutes after reading your comment. Was an oversight by me originally. Thanks again. Try it out now and let me know.

Just Read access now, as I put up in the update.

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