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Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

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Post by kelnos » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 8:15 PM UTC

GraffitiTim wrote: post #19

kelnos wrote: post #17

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"See who I follow, and follow new people. / Update your profile." No thanks.

We don't use those, twitter doesn't have a fine-grained permissions system.

Wow, really? What a crappy developer platform. I question why Twitter even bothers to put that stuff in a bulleted list when they're not even giving the developers a choice as to what they want to use. My natural reaction is to blame the developer for trigger-happy permissions requesting. Sorry about that!

Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

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Post by JoshTriplett » Thu, Jul 14, 2011, 11:08 PM UTC

GraffitiTim wrote: post #32

JoshTriplett wrote: post #15

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While I realize that part of this comes from the structure that Twitter's authorization takes, which doesn't allow fine-grained permissions, ideally I'd love to see more sites asking which permissions you want to grant them. I almost never want to allow a site to tweet on my behalf (though I don't mind if it wants to send me over to Twitter with a suggested tweet), and I don't want to trust the site itself to not abu…

We now prompt only for read access. Later on we might add back in some options to grant read+write access in order to more deeply integrate it with Twitter.

Thank you for that; greatly appreciated.

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