Allen, OAuth is the third-party authorization protocol that we have decided to embrace. You can search the group's archives [1] for past discussion on OpenID and the Twitter API.
1. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/search?group=twitter-development-talk&q=openid&qt_g=Search+this+group Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Allen Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 16, 9:52 am, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > Matt has deployed our answer for one click login. It requires only a > small > > change to the normal Twitter OAuth workflow and is documented here: > > > > http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Sign-in-with-Twitter > > > > This is the perfect tool for web applications wanting to offer users the > > ability to sign in with a Twitter account and a single mouse click. We > want > > to see it in the wild so please let us know if you roll this out in your > > application. > > > > Hi Doug, > > Signing into websites using your Twitter account is an awesome idea, > Twitter accounts would make fantastic portable identities that can be > used to sign into 3rd party sites. Most sites using using Facebook > Connect or OpenID really just want your profile, follower graph, and > the ability to receive viral referral traffic by writing to your > activity stream. > > OAuth is great for 3rd party applications that are built on top of > Twitter, however, I'm not sure if it's appropriate to use OAuth token > for Signing In to a website, because it allows that site to spam your > followers by tweeting on your behalf. Using OpenID is safer for Sign- > in, because OpenID would allow Twitter users to verify their Twitter > identity, and share their Twitter Profile and Follower Graph (by > scraping the microformats on the Twitter Profile Page), without having > to authorize access to their Twitter account. If Twitter users sign in > with OpenID, 3rd party sites could still generate viral referral > traffic by giving users a UI to preview and approve the tweet, by > opening a modal dialog or popup that reuses the user's twitter browser > session to tweet. > > Allen >
