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15th December 2008 - Link Blog

Now You Can Sign Into Friend Connect Sites With Your Twitter ID. Great. Now even Google is asking me for my Twitter password. Slow clap. How’s that Twitter OAuth beta coming along?

Posted 15th December 2008 at 5:20 pm

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