title: Using the Facebook API compared with the Twitter API
body: <p>I thought it would be useful to contrast facebook's api with twitter's, when it came to accessing user information.  I am not sure about facebook's API, so I'm trying to clarify and compare the following:</p>
  
  <p>1) With twitter, you can scrape data about most people by using an "application" oauth token/secret. Simple and free apps can do twittermining with there own oauth token/secret, that has no relation to a user. </p>
  
  <p>Is this approach possible in facebook? </p>
  
  <p>2) With twitter, an oauth credential has several requests which it can be used to "power".  In facebook, can we reuse and recycle Oauth tokens for different requests?  Or are they specific to users?  This relates to question (1), since I'm not quite clear on whether the graph API allows anonymous requests.  </p>