Why does BetaList require so many Twitter permissions?
I wanted to prepare posting my product on BetaList and I have to create an account. I don't understand why they require all those permissions:
Are they all really needed? Is it safe? If you already have an account, did you agree to all those permissions? It feels very dodgy in my opinion.
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It's probably that they need one setting which has dependencies. Just an idea: to be able to follow an account (betalist) they need to also be able to mute and block accounts. Those two might be linked on the permissions side of twitter. I may be wrong
I honestly think and hope someone misconfigured the permissions. Why would they need to be able to follow an account for me? I just want to post a listing on their website, not follow their twitter. What if I don't even use twitter?
Some of the permissions are also really strange, like being able to like/retweet posts from my account.