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Comment by arscan | Hacker News Reader

"We don’t tweet on behalf of our users."

Then why do they explicitly ask for permission to do so when authorizing to your twitter account?

I'd be a bit harder on Prismatic than Julien... their entire service is based on trusting them with your social network data. This is a pretty serious violation of that trust.

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Really wonder about people who see this and still click through:

   This application will be able to:

   * Read Tweets from your timeline.
   * See who you follow, and follow new people.
   * Update your profile.
   * Post Tweets for you.

This sort of intrusive access is really not even necessary, is it?

New people: DM the user that you think this is a good person to follow. (Link to some samples that triggered the recommendation would be nice.)

Profile: can't even imagine what/why of this one, but again a private DM with "suggest you use this profile because of ..." is perfectly serviceable.

Tweet on my behalf: No thank you.

Whenever I see requirements like that it almost always changes my mind about the app.

Really wonder about people who see this and still click through

Agreed. Its crazy how many times I've passed up on using what I assume is otherwise a great app or service because I wasn't happy with accepting any of those permissions.

We don't tweet when you don't tell us to. This is a case where there was a UX fail in the profile publication settings so some people get confused and publish all their actions. it's infrequent and we're going to chance the ux.

I've had precisely this experience as a developer. If our user interface confuses people that's our fault, not theirs.

Because there are three levels of permission an app can ask for:

  * Read only
  * Read and Write
  * Read, Write and Access direct messages

I think you are missing the intent of your quote, which is they won't _automatically_ tweet on behalf of their users. Using their site for only a moment, it is clear they will require writing tweets, upon users actively marking a twitter icon and submitting a share form.

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