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I don't understand.

Don't you have to explicitly allow an app/site to post tweets on your behalf? Why not simply refuse to allow it? I see no reason a service has to rely on this permission, and if they do it's a great reason not to use it. What am I missing?

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yes you have to explicitly check this setting. but to be fair, it's on us to make the UX flows extraordinarily clear for such a hot-button social feature. we obviously need to redesign this and it sticks that we've caused a few users to spam a bunch of friends unintentionally. :\

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