I'm sure you have run into this issue within the last week. You want to tweet an article or post it to Facebook and are given the "opportunity" to sign in using Twitter or Facebook. Then you are confronted with a request, in this case I chose Twitter, to turn over access to the following information on Twitter so the "application" will be able to:
1. Read Tweets from my timeline
2. See who I follow, and follow new people
3. Update my profile
4. Post Tweets for me
5. Access my direct messages until June 30th, 2011
It was number 4 that resulted in me being asked to share this with an application run by paper.Li.
Who is paper.Li? Why do they think by extending me the courtesy of helping me tweet an article they have access to my twitter account, but, they make this clear, THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE MY TWITTER PASSWORD just everything else.
When information requests are this onerous professional folks will not use the service. Nor should they. Also, at the bottom of the screen there is the note, concerning Twitters Terms of Service which adds, "In particular, some usage information will be shared back with Twitter." It's a treasure trove for data mining, but by whom and for what purposes?
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