Twitter ConnectOne of the future Universal Login?

Presented at #Buzz140

By Vasanth Kumarwww.twitter.com/vasanthgvkwww.facebook.com/vasanthgvkwww.linkedin.com/vasanthgvk

Getting tired in form registration?

One Time Registration for All Sites

A Universal Identity

Open ID

Facebook Connect

Friend Connect

Twitter Connect

Who will become the winner?

Why Twitter ?

Benefits of Twitter Connect?

• Trusted Authentication • Real Identity• Friend Linking • Dynamic Privacy • Social Distribution

What specifics do we get?

• Avoid Signing up on website• User’s avatar, full name• Get Social graph information (user’s

friends and followers ids)• Publish to Twitter feed, giving viral effect.

How does Twitter Connect work?

• Examples of Twitter Connect:– Mashable (http://www.mashable.com/)

– Fearless blogger (http://fearlessblogger.com/)

How do we embed Sign-in with Twitter?

Setting Up – Twitter Connect

http://twitter.com/oauth_clients

Setting Up – Twitter Connect

Setting Up – Twitter Connect

Setting Up – Server Files

• Sample codes are available for various languages here

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-Examples

• Pick these two files from here

http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth/tree/master

OAuth.phptwitterOAuth.php

Setting Up – Server Files

• File to connect to Twitter (index.php)

Demo

Twitter Connect Ideas

Twitter Connect Ideas For You

• Make your personal blogs more social.• Microblogging with Twitter Connect.• Share comments with others.• Etc.

Q & A

Thank You

By Vasanth Kumarwww.twitter.com/vasanthgvkwww.facebook.com/vasanthgvkwww.linkedin.com/vasanthgvk