Twitter’s Answer To Facebook Connect
January 15, 2010 12:21 PM
Twitter is set to launch a new set of tools in response to Facebook Connect that will let third party websites easily integrate Twitter features directly into their web sites and services.
Facebook Connect was first announced in May 2008 (Google, Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) and MySpace announced similar projects at the same time. Google, Inc. and MySpace are providing similar social networks.
According to Facebook, nearly 80,000 websites have added Facebook Connect, and 60 million Facebook users engage with Facebook Connect on these third party websites each month. The new Twitter product will allow sites to authenticate users, pull data and then publish back to Twitter. All of these features exist today via the Twitter API, but the slick Facebook Connect-like packaging and easy-to-use widgets don’t exist yet, says Techcrunch.
