Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery • Hacker News Board

Skywing wrote: post #6

Alex3917 wrote: post #4

This application wants to post tweets on your behalf? Umm, no.

No, it will not post tweets on your behalf. It will automatically follow the three winners of the lottery, though. That is all.

"This application will be able to:

* Read Tweets from your timeline.

* Update your profile.

* Post Tweets on your behalf."

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#8

Post by Skywing » Mon, May 23, 2011, 5:21 PM UTC

Alex3917 wrote: post #7

Skywing wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it will not post tweets on your behalf. It will automatically follow the three winners of the lottery, though. That is all.

"This application will be able to: * Read Tweets from your timeline. * Update your profile. * Post Tweets on your behalf."

I don't see how to select a finer grain of control over what Crowdwoo needs, via Twitter's site, though. I've selected Read & Write access, because I need to be able to follow the winners. If there is a way to de-select the ability to post tweets and read timeline then I'd gladly do that. I'll continue to inspect the Twitter docs.

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#9

Post by riskish » Mon, May 23, 2011, 5:24 PM UTC

Alex3917 wrote: post #7

Skywing wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it will not post tweets on your behalf. It will automatically follow the three winners of the lottery, though. That is all.

"This application will be able to: * Read Tweets from your timeline. * Update your profile. * Post Tweets on your behalf."

I think that's just what he's capable of doing via twitter's api. He's stated, though, he's only going to have others follow as the guidelines suggested and not post tweets on your behalf.

Re: Crowdwoo - The Twitter Lottery

#10

Post by gr366 » Mon, May 23, 2011, 5:29 PM UTC

I think they should give credit to Dave Winer for the idea.

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop...