25 Oct 2009

TwitOAuth Founder: Twitter and the Apps

My tweets basically about sharing links, news and other interesting/funny things on the web. Since I am myself an active twitterer, I use a lot of twitter apps. But then, I found I thing that I did not like in most of the apps - that is I need to enter my twitter password. Entering twitter password on unknown third-party site is not a good idea in protecting your identity. Then, I found some of the apps using this OAuth login. It so easy, they just directed you back to twitter then you just need to click "Allow" to give the third-party app access to your twitter account - plus without the need to expose your twitter password of course. This method be known as "Twitter Connect" or also as "Sign in with Twitter" logins.

While OAuth login method has been introduce by Twitter officially, not all of the application are using it. Rarely to find those great twitter apps provide such kind of easy and secure authentication. Then I found myself to be the one that should promote the OAuth thing.

From a blog, it became a directory listing site. Further it was converted to be a Twitter Apps Gallery with a nicer interface. It is known as "TwitOAuth", currently listing more than 200 twitter applications and website that seriously concern about your privacy by providing login with twitter or also known as "Twitter OAuth".

Visit my latest project, and support for Twitter OAuth implementation across every twitter apps so that we all don't need to give passwords to any other sites anymore.

25 Oct 2009

Twitter OAuth Apps Gallery

TwitOAuth, our latest project which is also a Twitter OAuth Apps Gallery - so far has been updating our readers with more and more Twitter Apps on daily basis. Almost everyday, we try to add any Twitter applications or websites that provide users login to their app/site thru Twitter OAuth - also simply known as "Sign in with Twitter" button.

To simply introduce what the heck is Twitter OAuth, let just say that it provide much more SECURE and EASY login into your Twitter account for using any third-party applications or accessing other websites. By using Twitter OAuth, you don't need to enter your Twitter password to the third-party applications to get access. Twitter OAuth simply will redirect you to Twitter site back so that you can verify and allow the application's access to your Twitter account. On the alternative, basic auth requires you to input your twitter password on their site, which directly exposing your password to the third-party application.

But, to get those great Twitter Apps or websites that provide this OAuth login is not easy. There are no directory or any site that list up all those applications using Twitter OAuth yet. We ourselves hate giving our passwords to any third-party websites, so we create this directory - which result to "Twitter OAuth Apps Gallery" or can also be known as TwitOAuth.

TwitOAuth has been up almost 2 months now, but have got more than 200 entries showcasing Twitter applications and websites with OAuth login. We tried our best to find all those apps, from Googling to Twitter Search. Thanks also to the Twitter applications developers our there which submitted their apps. Our readers can also suggest us any Twitter apps that they know.

So, if you are Twitter users and finding a good Twitter Apps or even Twitter Games, we have it listed on our gallery. Just head up to http://twitoauth.com and browse what you needed. Even if you not on Twitter yet, sign up now and join the tweep-universe. Don't forget to bookmark us, and share this article to your friends.

(download)

Hafiz Zainudin's Space

Hafiz Zainudin, more known as Kureng, blogs about technology, social media and some interesting news on the Internet. He also runs a company based in Malaysia that create Web Applications and provided Technology Consulting services.