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bobsy on April 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter is forcing us to drop ability to flattr cr...

Is Twitter even a platform any more? They are going out of their way to limit and prevent 3rd party app's so they can distil down what Twitter is.. a status update service.

Beyond using Twitter for authentication I don't see why you would want to risk anything else on the Twitter API.

nahname on April 16, 2013 [–]

They don't share the user's email address. Kinda rules out using them for authentication, IMO.

dtsingletary on April 17, 2013 | [–]

Why? It protects the user's privacy, unlike Facebook. Ask them for their email address after they authenticate and make it an act of volition.

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