Thanks for the confirmation. I guess I'll have to rely on informing the user as you suggest.
It looks like a gap in the API to me, there must be plenty of websites out there that might want to confirm a user's identity with their twitter account, without wanting access to their tweets. Tom. On 21 March 2011 10:38, Ninjamonk <[email protected]> wrote: > yes it would, I think people are more worried about the ability to > write than read. > > You could just put up a message saying this is only being used for > sign in and we will not read your stream. > > On Mar 20, 9:06 pm, Tom Gibara <[email protected]> wrote: >> Searching for "sign in with twitter" pointed me to: >> >> http://dev.twitter.com/pages/sign_in_with_twitter >> >> which I've already read. My understanding is that my application must >> be registered to use OAuth, and that the access type it requires >> (read/write) is determined by that registration. Doesn't this mean >> that, at a minimum, the user will be informed that my application may >> read their tweets and account details? >> >> This won't be the case, and I don't want to give users that impression. >> >> Tom. >> >> On 20 March 2011 17:05, Ninjamonk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > search for sign in with twitter and you should be ok. >> >> > All you need to do is let them login with oauth and you will get those >> > details. >> >> > On Mar 20, 3:29 pm, tomgibara <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm developing an application in which I want to allow users to >> >> authenticate themselves with their twitter account. I need nothing >> >> more back from the authentication API than an ID that identifies the >> >> user; I don't want any access to any other account details or their >> >> tweets etc. In other words, I don't want read access. Is this >> >> possible? >> >> >> It seems not, because the application registration page offers only >> >> read or read/write. If this is the case, are there any plans to >> >> support an "authenticate only" option for applications? >> >> >> I did search this group for related threads but only found this post, >> >> which had no replies: >> >> >>http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... >> >> > -- >> > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc >> > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi >> > Issues/Enhancements >> > Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list >> > Change your membership to this >> > group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
