I see many people using XAuth in their app to authenticate twitter users and I’m wondering what are some situations that I would want to use XAuth in my own apps.
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I see many people using XAuth in their app to authenticate twitter users and I’m wondering what are some situations that I would want to use XAuth in my own apps.
Thanks for your wisdom!
If you have spent a lot of time hand crafting your UI, it can suddenly be very jarring to the user to have to goto a different UI to authenticate. For mobile in particular this can be jarring if the authentication page is not optimised for mobile as used to be the case with Twitter