Question

In Facebook API:

“When a user allows you to access their basic information in an auth dialog, you have access to their user id, name, …
To get access to any additional information about the user or their friends you need to ask for specific permissions from the user.”

So basically Facebook allows for use of the API with restricted permissions by default, and then it specifically asks for all sorts of permissions you might use.

In Twitter when the user is redirected to the twitter popup on “account/verify_credentials” the popup shows:
“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."

It is basically giving me permissions that I don’t need right off the bat and it might drive the user away from giving me such permissions (I wouldn’t blame them)

Is there a way to get restricted permission (such as user info, and that’s about it) thus show less items the user is allowing me to do in the popup ?

Answer 1

Sign into https://dev.twitter.com/apps, select the application, and switch access to read only on the settings tab. This will remove the Update your profile and Post Tweets for you permissions. The first two permissions are always present with Twitter OAuth.