OpenId and Twitter

January 15, 2008

One of the advantages of the OpenID system is that you don’t need a password at all to login. In fact André showed me MyVidoop where they use image categories to login instead of the traditional password.

Here is a new login workflow that uses your twitter account to send you your password. You can receive it by IM, SMS or your favorite Twitter client, and just login with it. As simple as that, and you are using your twitter account to login everywhere OpenID is available.

Pretty cool! I just wish Twitter themselves buy or develop this system, so we can all have official Twitter OpenIDs!

Tagged with: en, mobile, twitter, openID
This post has 2 comments. Feel free to read them and leave your own.
Nice. Instead of having my regular username+password combination, I would need a Twitter account as well as an OpenID identity.

Oddly enough, I don't see the "simplify-it's" in it. It's a nice concept, though.
I'll ignore MyVidoop since it's a complete usability disaster.

As for Ian's OpenID provider hack, it's actually a nice proof-of-concept/hack.

@johnnytanned Try it, you appear to be defending the traditional login method over openid and that's a dead-end for you.

OpenID by default still relies on the traditional user+pass, but only a single one, instead of one-per-service, and this hack is a cute, cool, great, awesome, fking awesome one( notice the gradual satisfaction increase ), 'cos it completely removes the old method, replacing it by a simple 5-digit token you get "IM, SMS or your favorite Twitter client".

As I said, try it, comment later.

The only downside is: Twitter's unreliable, has a 250 sms-per-week limit and there are many uses for Twitter's sms notifications beside the official one. (like getting sms notifications of special emails, free, not device-specific & battery-friendly too unlike other solutions, ex: push mail)

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