I see many people using XAuth in their app to authenticate twitter users and I'm wondering what are some situations that I would want to use XAuth in my own apps.
Thanks for your wisdom!
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If you have spent a lot of time hand crafting your UI, it can suddenly be very jarring to the user to have to goto a different UI to authenticate. For mobile in particular this can be jarring if the authentication page is not optimised for mobile as used to be the case with Twitter
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xAuth lets you skip showing a web view containing the Twitter login. It makes for a simpler and less jarring user experience for non-web apps.
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Thanks, Jim. Can't you use OAuth to login to twitter without using a web view? – BeachRunnerFred Jan 22 '11 at 21:28
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I'm probably a bit late here, but no - you have to send the user to a Twitter web page to get a PIN. – Jim Feb 09 '11 at 18:46