Twitter Connect: Use Your Twitter Logon Credentials to Share your Comments
I’ve previously written about Chat Catcher, a plugin for WordPress that “collect” tweets about a blog posting so they can be displayed with the posts comments.
Shannon Whitley, its developer, has another great plugin in the works: Twitter Connect.
Twitter Connect adds a blue button to your blog (pictured above) that visitors can click to use their Twitter credentials to leave a comment. Similar to Facebook Connect, this process tells the blog who you are without you having to share your Twitter password.
It’s brand-spanking new (or else you’d see one of those buttons on my blog by now!) – Shannon just wrote it today.
Shannon based the plugin on the work done by Adam Hupp of Facebook. He writes:
Although this plugin is nowhere near as complex as the Facebook Connect code, it provides the basic login into WordPress and will display avatars with each comment.
You’ll likely be seeing the button on this site sometime soon. In the meantime, head over to Shannon’s blog to try it yourself! Twitter Connect (sort of) | Shannon Whitley.
(Worth noting: In my Chat Catcher post, I mentioned how impressed I was with Shannon’s responsiveness and proactive service approach. I’d like to make a follow up comment here to share that Shannon has continued to maintain that level of service, even as the popularity of his plug-in has grown.)
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