Twitter announces Digits, an alternative to passwords

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 23 Oktober 2014 | 21.43

NEW DELHI: Twitter at its first-ever developer conference, named Flight, announced a new service called Digits that will allow users to log into apps on their mobile devices without user ID and password.

Instead of the traditional email ID, Digits uses a text message to sign into an app, much like WhatsApp. When users sign up or log into an app, they will get a message with an authentication code on their phone. This code will be used by the app to confirm the user's identity.

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Twitter said that 300 million smartphones are to be sold in developed markets like the US and Europe, while emerging countries will account for the sale of approximately 940 million smartphones. In several emerging countries, smartphone buyers do not have an email account, and therefore are not able to sign into apps, Michael Drucker, the product manager for Flight, said.

Digits has already been rolled out in 216 countries and 28 languages and is available for Android, iOS and web platforms. The company said apps like McDonald's Alarm Clock, OneFootball, Resy and FitStar have already implemented Digits on their platform. In order to implement it, developers need to write a code in the app; once done, it will show that 'SMS Authentication' as one of the login options, alongside Google, Facebook and Twitter sign-ins.

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Twitter says that its microblogging website is a consumer-centric project, while Digits is a developer-end solution, and thus both are completely separate.

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