Why do I need to authenticate my X account when adding my first X profile?

Our tool will ask you to authenticate with your X account when adding your very first profile of this network. By authenticating you enable us to perform the requests necessary to fetch public data from X for the profiles you would like to monitor. This is also why you can authenticate with any X account, as this is not about accessing specifically the information of the X profile you have authenticated with.

This is how the initial authentication to enable tracking of public data looks like:

In line with this, this very first authentication to enable the tracking of public X data has nothing to do with the authentication for private statistic access. If you want to access private level information of your X profiles, you can do so by activating private stats use cases for these profiles in Facelift Data Studio. You will then be asked to authenticate with the necessary permission scopes for these specific profiles.