Hi Matt,

while being an improvement over the old oauth form, this form still
does not tell the user all she needs to know. In particular, it hides
the fact that the app will have almost total control over their
twitter account.

In my experience, most users are totally unaware of this fact. Of
course, from a developer's point of view everything that will stop
user's from authorizing their apps will always be greeted with
skepticism. However, I hope that Twitter will sooner or later inform
users that authorizing an app with read/write access can be
potentially very dangerous -- and doing so in the oauth form would be
the best place to do so.

Or we could just hope that we will never see any malicious Twitter
apps.

Best regards,
Stefan

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