[twitter-dev] Obtain email address after authentication

2010-09-07 Thread shanew
Why doesn't twitter include the user's email address in the account/ verify_credentials API? Facebook offers this with their graph API. Yahoo, Google, and others offer it via OpenID/AX. It seems like such a useful attribute - eg. for 1-click self registration into websites, auto subscription to

[twitter-dev] Re: Obtain email address after authentication

2010-09-08 Thread shanew
Thanks for the reply Ken. I understand all you have said, but the real power of protocols like OAuth is user consent of their own attribute data. My entire goal is to *avoid* having to ask a user to re-enter their emal address. In this particular use case minimally invasive is eqivalent to