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JoshTriplett on Jan 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your succe...

Why do I need to authorize a connection to my Twitter account in order to audit someone else's? What are you using it for, and could you either make that more clear up front or drop the requirement, preferably the latter?

dangrossman on Jan 3, 2014 [–]

Probably to use your account to make the requests to Twitter's API. The API is very rate-limited, so using his own account for everyone isn't viable.

davecap1 on Jan 4, 2014 | [–]

Yup that's the reason!

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