Allow Twitter OAuth identification instead of OpenID for commenting

[swaldman]

Title:
Allow Twitter OAuth identification instead of OpenID for commenting

Area:
openID (sort of)

Summary:
Allow Twitter OAuth identification instead of OpenID for commenting

Description:
A lot of my readers these days don't come from LJ or Dreamwidth, may not have an OpenID, or even if they do have one (most likely Google) don't know what an OpenID is. But most of them have a Twitter account. It would be nice if Twitter OAuth could be used as an identity for commenting. Possibly other OAuth providers too.

Poll #16835 Allow Twitter OAuth identification instead of OpenID for commenting

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
30 (65.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (15.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (6.5%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (13.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[solitarywalker]

It'd be better if Twitter and OpenID could both be options, unless there's some technical reason why that isn't possible.

[swaldman]

Yes - sorry, that's my bad phrasing. I did not intend to suggest that OpenID support should be removed.

[firecat]

This.

[erik]

Yes this

[aedifica]

That's my "with changes"--OpenID should not be removed (not that that was the intent here).

[marahmarie]

This (also, that's my "with changes").

[silverflight8]

This is my "with changes" vote.

[syderia]

This is my "with changes"

[azurelunatic]

I do have minor concerns about spam, but I think we get more external spam via imports of allegedly expunged spammers from LJ at this point.

[jazzyjj]

I think this is a good option. It would make an already awesome site even more awesome.