when you go to a website that’s not facebook or Twitter, one of the best ways to log in is ceaselessly via fb. Twitter wants to alter that, by promising to not share as a lot data as facebook does.
Twitter’s Digits device branding
With Twitter’s new Digits device, the social network offers a alternative for the previous username and password log-in. Digits lets users log into websites with their cell phone quantity–an identifier that is a lot less likely to trade (and easier to needless to say) than an e mail address or username. as a substitute of a password, customers are despatched a text message with a code that they use to log in.
it’s a move via Twitter to replace the ever-present “Log in with fb” carrier, with the added benefit that users don’t have to surrender their fb data to every other website for the convenience of no longer having to remember that another username/password combination. In a transfer additionally designed to do what fb does however with less knowledge sharing, Ello, the ad-free social community that some believe may rival facebook, has secured $5.5 million in new undertaking capital funding. Ello is now the quickest-rising social community, and has promised by no means to sell person knowledge. they’re both promising trends for individuals who do not like how fb uses their information–however that more than likely will remain a small subset of facebook’s a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of users. [h/t: the big apple times]
