In some contexts, I'd argue that an authenticated Twitter handle is more valuable than an e-mail address. You can use the Twitter API to find out if that handle relates to an active Twitter account (one that's been around for a while, has a certain number of followers, regularly posts updates) - you have no way of telling if an e-mail address is just a disposable one people use for avoiding signup junk.
If you do need a confirmed address, you can always ask them for their e-mail address separately and get them to go through a link-via-email loop on your site.
that's crazy .. but c00l ... they really did roll that out quietly eh.... seems to me it has somewhat big implications? what, is everyone going to become an auth provider/integrator now? web3.0 here we come
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I'm hoping this means we'll see more of Google and Plaxos Step2 OpenID extension in the future.
Twitter does not verify your email address while creating an account. So I don't know how useful a twitter login can get.
Santosh Rajan - 20th April 2009 12:59 - #
In some contexts, I'd argue that an authenticated Twitter handle is more valuable than an e-mail address. You can use the Twitter API to find out if that handle relates to an active Twitter account (one that's been around for a while, has a certain number of followers, regularly posts updates) - you have no way of telling if an e-mail address is just a disposable one people use for avoiding signup junk.
If you do need a confirmed address, you can always ask them for their e-mail address separately and get them to go through a link-via-email loop on your site.
that's crazy .. but c00l ... they really did roll that out quietly eh.... seems to me it has somewhat big implications? what, is everyone going to become an auth provider/integrator now? web3.0 here we come