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Ease of implementation mainly. Plus one less email/password to have to worry about. And what founder doesn't have a twitter account, it's sort of as essential a
by railsjedi 14y ago
Ease of implementation mainly. Plus one less email/password to have to worry about. And what founder doesn't have a twitter account, it's sort of as essential as email at this point.
We won't post tweets. We added write permission so we could help organize groups together. Twitter doesn't really make it easy to choose exactly what permission you want to pick. It's write all or nothing.
- lpolovets 14y agoThanks for the reply. I don't use Twitter, hence the minor frustration. Also, wouldn't FB Connect be about as easy to implement while supporting many more potential users? Anyway, I really like the virtual incubator idea; I hope it works out well.
- adhipg 14y agoI am much more skeptical of using FB connect than using Twitter for authentication as a user. I guess this is because connecting my Facebook account will mean that I am sharing a lot of new information about myself with the service whereas with something like Twitter there's just the authentication bit that's shared - there's no new data that now becomes available to speak off. My tweets were already public.
- daeken 14y agoNot to hijack the thread too heavily, but is there an easy way to add Twitter handles after you've signed up as a startup? I submitted just with one cofounder's and need to add more (forgot to throw them all in). Thanks, and this is a great idea; looking forward to participating.
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- railsjedi 14y agoYep, just go to http://s12.nreduce.com/startup/edit http://s12.nreduce.com/startup/edit. Let us know if you have any issues editing your team profile. Thanks!
- SkyMarshal 14y ago> Plus one less email/password to have to worry about. You should assume a highly technical audience already has that problem solved, via LastPass, KeePass, or something similar. > And what founder doesn't have a twitter account, it's sort of as essential as email at this point. Some of us prefer to compartmentalize our online identities instead of linking them all together, at least initially.
- adamtulinius 14y agoIf you want ease of implementation, how about BrowserId?
- railsjedi 14y agoThe ease of implementation is actually specifically because of twitter usernames. We can do stuff like team permissions via just a comma delimited list of @handles. Pretty handy