Ask HN: Does Twitter access your Facebook friends list when you sign up?

3 points by joshlegs 14y ago ↗ HN

I signed up for a twitter today whilst logged in to Facebook. In the first screen where twitter suggests people to follow, there were a few people I was friends with on Facebook and there were a few pages I had liked on FB. Does twitter somehow access my FB account to get this information? Or was it perhaps random chance?

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youngdev 14y ago ↗

If you linked your Twitter account to your Facebook profile then yes.

joshlegs 14y ago ↗

I did not. I don't like doing that. It's really strange ... I was merely signed in to facebook at the same time.

edit: I wonder if anyone else is able to replicate this, though.

d3c0d3dab0d3 14y ago ↗

I also recently signed up for twitter, and noticed the same thing. I just figured it was based on location, and maybe what twitter pages my IP had visited before signing up.