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When trying out http://www.feedly.com/ I noticed it automatically recognized my Twitter-name. How?

jacob
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As a Firefox add-on, it has access to your cookies, and thus, when you're logged in to twitter, to your twitter account name.

balpha
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As it runs as a browser addin, I'd assume that it makes a web request to twitter using your existing login cookie (which wouldn't be allowed for a website due to security restrictions) and gets your twitter username as part of the response.

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